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单词 plout
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ploutn.

Brit. /plaʊt/, U.S. /plaʊt/, Scottish English /plʌʊt/, Irish English /plaʊt/
Forms: Scottish 1700s ploot, 1700s– plout, 1800s pleut, 1800s plloot, 1800s pllout, 1900s– plowt; Irish English (northern) 1900s– ploot, 1900s– plout.
Origin: An imitative or expressive formation.
Etymology: Imitative. Compare plout v., and also plop n., plump n.2
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.
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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.
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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.

Brit. /plaʊt/, U.S. /plaʊt/, Scottish English /plʌʊt/, Irish English /plaʊt/
Forms: Scottish 1700s– plout, 1800s pllout, 1800s ploit, 1800s plot, 1800s plowt, 1800s plut; Irish English (northern) 1800s– ploit, 1900s– plout.
Origin: An imitative or expressive formation.
Etymology: Imitative. Compare earlier plout n., and also plop v., plump v.1 Compare plouter v.Compare also Scots plowd ‘to walk in a heavy-footed way, as through water or mud’, etc. (see Sc. National Dict. at that entry), perhaps originally a variant of this word.
Chiefly Scottish and Irish English (northern).
1. transitive. Scottish. To plunge, submerge. Now Orkney (rare). Cf. plout n. 1.
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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.
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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
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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).
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