单词 | pirnie |
释义 | pirnien.1 Scottish. = pirn n.1 Frequently attributive. †to reel (a person's) pirny: to do (a person) an ill turn (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture of thread or yarn > [noun] > winding > winding on spool or bobbin > spool or bobbin spoolc1325 pirn1440 rocket1440 quillc1450 bobbin1530 reed1530 spill1594 twill1664 ratchet1728 pirnie1776 runner1784 reel1785 spindle1837 1776 C. Keith Farmer's Ha' 5 The auld gudewife the pirney reels Wi' tenty hand. 1782 R. Fergusson Election in Poems (ed. 2) ii. 33 Faith, Chiel, ye's no for naething gang Gin ye man reel my pirny. 1879 J. White Jottings 192 Doon to the Leap I'll aften rin, Richt glad to hear my pirnie spin. 1966 in Sc. National Dict. (1968) VII. at Pirn Haud it steady, haud it still, Or I get by the pirnie-mill. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). pirnien.2 Scottish. Now rare. A conical woollen nightcap, usually striped. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > cap > types of > worn for specific purpose > night cap > types of dowd?1750 dowdy1778 pirnie1824 slumber cap1928 slumber net1930 1824 J. Mactaggart Sc. Gallovidian Encycl. (at cited word) A monkey..leaped on to his shoulder, and plucked off his pirnie. 1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Pirnie, a woollen nightcap made in Kilmarnock, of different colours or stripes. 1895 S. R. Crockett Bog-myrtle & Peat 206 Tibbie was knitting at a reid pirnie for her father. 1910 Scotsman 12 Sept. Old ladies are seldom seen with ‘mutches’ or old men with ‘pirnies’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2022). † pirnieadj. Scottish. Obsolete. Of cloth: woven from threads of different colours; striped. Cf. pirn v. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > variegation > stripiness > [adjective] ray1374 barreda1387 rayed?a1400 bendedc1400 scowledc1440 listeda1500 burledc1500 palya1509 stripy1513 rawed1534 straked1537 railye1539 rowed1552 begaired1554 pirnie1597 tiger-marked1597 tiger-striped1597 interlined1601 waled1602 striped1604 panached1664 strip1666 ribboned1790 zebraed1806 zebrinea1810 banded1823 sparred1827 notate1857 zebraic1858 stroked1896 tigered1969 bestriped- the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric manufactured in specific way > [adjective] > patterned > striped > specific pirned1494 miled1512 pirnie1597 pinstripe1863 pin-striped1880 1511 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1902) IV. 253 The Kingis goune of pyrne satyne of gold lynit with Romany buge.] 1597 Edinb. Test. XXXI. f. 141v, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Pirny Sextene elne pirny canves at vj s. viij d. the elne. 1616 Edinb. Test. XLIX. f. 168, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Pirny Pirnie stuff. a1689 W. Cleland Coll. Poems (1697) 12 With Brogues, Trues, and pirnie Plaides, With good blew Bonnets on their Heads. 1721 A. Ramsay Poems I. 291 (note) When a Piece of Stuff is wrought unequally, Part coarse, and Part fine, of Yarn of different Colours, we call it pirny, from the Pirn, or little hollow Reed which holds the Yarn in the Shuttle. 1865 J. Hamilton Poems 192 Crossing his ‘pirnie’ plaid over his shoulders and chest. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.11776n.21824adj.1597 |
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