单词 | port-yowl |
释义 | † port-yowln.int. Scottish and Irish English (northern). Obsolete. A doleful cry, a howl, a lament. Chiefly in to sing port-yowl: to cry out, wail, howl.Used as interjection ‘alas’ in quot. 1824. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or shout (loudness) > cry of emotion or pain > [verb (intransitive)] > wail or howl theotenc888 yarmc1000 yowla1225 yollc1275 gowlc1300 woulc1340 yawlc1400 howlc1405 yowta1525 whewla1560 exululate1623 to sing port-yowla1693 toot1808 blart1896 a1693 M. Bruce Good News in Evil Times (1707) 66 All Folks are singing Songs of Jovialty, but the people of God, they must sing Portyoul. 1722 W. Hamilton Life of Sir William Wallace iii. 161 I'll make them know they have no Right to rule, And cause them shortly all Sing up Port-yeull. a1758 A. Ramsay Poems (1961) III. 335 While some illfated wandring bird must fa With ruefull cheeps in his dead griping Claw Oer late it then its last portyoul may sing. 1824 J. Mactaggart Sc. Gallovidian Encycl. 81 Af gangs his stane, and ay it clamps, But, hoh, portule, a hog—It grunts that day. 1892 Ballymena Observer (E.D.D.) A'll mak' you sing portule wi' the wrang side o' your lip oot. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.int.a1693 |
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