单词 | plout |
释义 | ploutn. Scottish and Irish English (northern). 1. attributive. Scottish. The action of plunging or submerging, esp. in plout kirn n. (also plout churn) a churn operated by a plunger. Now Orkney (rare). ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > causing to come or go down > [noun] > dipping or plunging into liquid submersion?a1425 dippingc1440 indippinga1564 ducking1581 diving1614 immersion1658 plout1705 souse1793 1705 Dialogue between Country-man & Landwart School-master 3 I..gave the other such a Thwack with my Ploot Staff, that he dropt his Durk and fell down half dead. 1740 Rothes MSS 20 June in Sc. National Dict. (1968) VII. 179/3 A neu plout kiren..£3. 12s. 0. 1747 in Proc. Orkney Antiquarian Soc. (1934) 12 52 A Plout Churn..4 butter Kitts. 1922 J. Firth Reminisc. Orkney Parish 104 The housewife, as she plunged the kirn staff in the deep ‘plout-kirn’, made a circuit at regular intervals round the kirn. 1996 M. Flaws & G. Lamb Orkney Dict. at Plout Plout-kirn, the old type of churn in which butter was made by plouting a stick up and down. 2. A heavy fall of rain. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > precipitation or atmospheric moisture > rain > [noun] > a or the fall of rain > downpour floodc1275 spate1513 spout1554 gourder1565 squata1640 downpouring1669 deluge1720 pash1722 plout1740 on-ding1776 pelt1785 soaker1789 pelter1791 teem1793 pour1794 oncome1808 downpour1811 plash1820 slashing1829 plungec1841 dispunging1876 steeper1878 splurge1879 soak1891 drencher1892 toad-strangler1938 1740 Atholl MSS 13 July in Sc. National Dict. (1968) VII. 180/1 We had that day a great plout of rain which did not last. 1818 J. Sinclair Simple Lays 33 But winter's drenchin' plouts thee greet, An' gaurs thee dwine. 1823 W. Tennant Cardinal Beaton iv. iii. 113 We'll hae a thud o' thunner wi' a guid plout o' weet. 1927 J. Stevenson Bab of Percivals 102 A bit o' a plout'll dae nae hairm. 1950 in Sc. National Dict. (1968) VII. 180/2 [Perthshire] It's getherin in the wast there for a rale plowt. 2001 S. Heaney Electric Light 76 Like a man speaking in tongues, brought to his senses By a sudden plout on the road into Ahascragh. 3. Scottish. A splash; a splashing or plopping sound, esp. of a fish breaking the surface of the water. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of splashing > [noun] > action or sound of splasha1822 plout1822 sploshing1929 1822 H. Ainslie Pilgrimage to Land of Burns 60 Then to wauken frae our dream As the sugar or the cream Plays plout into the cup. 1873 J. Hamilton Poems (ed. 2) 81 The loupin braize an' perch fell back Wi’ mony plouts an' plashes. 1947 J. B. Salmond Toby Jug v. 70 Every now and then the body of a small trout would curve in the air and drop back into the stream with a plout. 1961 Huntly Express 26 May There wis a muffled kin' o' plout like a shottie. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). ploutv. Chiefly Scottish and Irish English (northern). 1. transitive. Scottish. To plunge, submerge. Now Orkney (rare). Cf. plout n. 1. ΚΠ 1787 D. Graham Oration on Virtues of Old Women 3 To plout her hands through Hawky's caff-cog, is a hateful hardship for Mammy's pet, and will hack a' her hands. 1988 G. Lamb Orkney Wordbk. at Plout Plouting blankets treading blankets in the washing process. 1996 M. Flaws & G. Lamb Orkney Dict. at Plout The old type of churn in which butter was made by plouting a stick up and down. 2. intransitive. To fall with a splash; to plunge or splash in water. Also: to fall heavily. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > move downwards [verb (intransitive)] > plunge > plunge in or under water or mud launch13.. sousec1400 douse1603 plounce1654 delve1697 immerge1706 immerse1739 inswamp1775 plout1814 blob1875 1814 W. Tennant Elegy on Trottin' Nanny 6 Her wame, like to a butter-churn Did plout and wallop? 1866 W. Gregor Dial. Banffshire (Philol. Soc.) 130 The bairn plloutit our o' the fleer. He plloutit in o' the queede amo' the wattir our the hehd. 1867 W. S. Plumer in C. H. Spurgeon Treasury of David (1870) I. Ps. xi. 5, 9 Behold Pharaoh..and his horses, plouting and plunging. 1880 W. H. Patterson Gloss. Words Antrim & Down 79 What are ye ploitin' down for there, ye fitless falla'. 1898 N. Munro in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Feb. 186/2 A linn..where the salmon plout in a most wonderful profusion. 1996 C. I. Macafee Conc. Ulster Dict. 257/1 Plout, of a person plunge into water, take a dip. Derivatives ˈplouting n. rare ΚΠ 1856 J. Ballantine Poems 34 Screaming, pouting, plouting, plashing, Tell of tiny elfins washing. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1705v.1787 |
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