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单词 port-yowl
释义

port-yowln.int.

Forms: 1700s port-yeull, 1700s portyoul, 1800s portule.
Origin: Apparently either (i) formed within English, by compounding. Or (ii) a borrowing from Scottish Gaelic, combined with an English element. Etymons: port n.8, yowl n.; Scottish Gaelic port , yowl n.
Etymology: Apparently < port n.8 (although this is first attested slightly later) or its etymon Scottish Gaelic port + yowl n.
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.
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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
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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).
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