单词 | pocky |
释义 | pockyn. Scottish (chiefly Orkney and Shetland). A small bag; (now) esp. a paper or plastic bag as used in shops. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > bag > [noun] > shopping-bag shopping bag1849 pocky1880 shopping net1890 shopper1962 packet1977 1880 W. T. Dennison Orcadian Sketch-bk. 97 Rob wus bit ower like a bockie In a ill apshakin pockie. 1889 J. M. Barrie Window in Thrums xx. 190 There's the pocky..ye gae me to keep the sewin' things in. 1917 A. S. Neill Dominie Dismissed iv. 54 They used to hide their packets in every corner of it [sc. my desk], then they would come to me and say: ‘Please, sir, my pockie is in the wee corner on the right.’ 1976 R. Bulter Shaela 5 If wir aald fok could see wis, dey wid tink wis faa'n füls, Buyin soup attae a pocky. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). pockyadj.1adv. 1. a. Full of or marked with pocks or pustules; pitted; spec. infected with the pox, usually syphilis (now historical). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > venereal disease > [adjective] > syphilis > infected with pockyc1350 French-sick1605 Frenchified1607 pock-rotten1616 poxed1678 Gallican1694 syphilitic1787 pox-fouleda1915 c1350 Nominale (Cambr. Ee.4.20) in Trans. Philol. Soc. (1906) 8* F[emme]. ad face verolee, W[oman]. hath face polky [read pokky]. 1483 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 89074) (1881) 286 Pokky, porriginosus. 1530 W. Tyndale Pract. Prelates sig. Gviijv Oure fayre yong doughter was sent to the old pockye kynge of fraunce, the yere before oure mortall enemye. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. xlvijv The Dutchmen..spake shamefully of this mariage, that a feble old & pocky man should mary so fayre a lady. 1640 J. Parkinson Theatrum Botanicum 450 Under colour of giving physicke to their pockie patients. 1663 A. Cowley Cutter of Coleman-St. ii. viii. 21 Ha' ye sent the pocky Doctor and the plaguy 'Pothecary to a Justice o' Peace to be examin'd? 1687 T. Brockbank Jrnl. Dec. (1930) 6 He took his Mother about ye neck wth his pocky arm, and Kist her wth his scabbed lips. 1730 J. Swift Lady's Dressing-room 134 To him that looks behind the scene, Statira's but some pocky queen. 1794 Safe-conduct Territories Republic of Venus iii. 165 No doubt Moses had plenty of pocky, as well as mangy patients, among that hopeful banditti. 1834 S. Cooper Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) II. 601 (note) A healthy wet nurse, getting a sore nipple, in consequence of suckling a pocky child..will communicate the disease to the Fœtus. 1968 H. Kenner Counterfeiters i. 34 When this was written Gulliver's account of the pocky breasts of court ladies had been in the poet's memory some sixteen years. 1998 H. Mantel Giant, O'Brien vii. 85 He inoculates a pocky pauper with matter from another person's chancre, and is interested to find that chancres form. 2005 Sunday Mirror (Nexis) 10 Apr. 31 Daniel Craig has ginger hair, pocky skin and is what can only be described as ‘craggy’. b. Chiefly colloquial. Contemptible, worthless, poor. Also as an intensifier (also as adv.). Cf. lousy adj. 2, mangy adj. 3, poxy adj. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adjective] > very great or extreme > specifically of something bad or reprobated woefula1400 mortalc1425 preciousc1475 fine1559 trim1569 gay1581 unconscionable1590 pocky1601 abominable1612 fearful1634 handsome1638 plaguey1694 dreadful1700 awfy1724 murrain1728 diabolical1750 deuced1782 dire1836 sinful1863 sodding1881 blooming1882 flaming1895 ruddy1896 abysmal1904 awful1916 hellishing1927 right1958 steaming1962 schwag1993 1601 J. Deacon & J. Walker Summarie Answere to Darel 79 Were not this pockie good stuffe..to pester your Pulpit withall? 1604 King James VI & I Counterblaste to Tobacco sig. C3 As for curing of the Pockes, it serues for that vse but among the pockie Indian slaues. 1609 B. Jonson Case is Alterd iii. sig. H4v Plaguie boy, he sooths his humour? these french villaines ha pockie wits. View more context for this quotation 1669 J. Dryden Wild Gallant iv. i. 47 But that's his pocky humour. 1733 Grub-St. Jrnl. 29 Nov. 1/1 Our newspapers are filled with pocky advertisements. 1833 J. Neal Down-easters I. v. 62 You're from Feladelphy—what a pocky tarnal great place that must be! by all accounts. 1940 K. Roberts Oliver Wiswell xcvi. 823 They gave him less than one eighth of their quotas! And to get even that little measly, pocky eighth, the states had to [etc.]. 1984 S. Moore Paths of Fortune 73 ‘Never seen such a pocky choice,’ muttered Rowley. 2. Relating to or of the nature of a pock or pustule, or the pox (usually syphilis, occasionally smallpox); syphilitic, variolous. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > venereal disease > [adjective] > syphilis pocky?1550 Neapolitan1591 syphilitic1764 syphiloid1813 luodic1822 vaccino-syphilitic1868 neurosyphilitic1877 parasyphilitic1889 ?1550 T. Becon Jewel of Joye sig. Siiiiv To heale all those pockye diseases wherwt your soules are infected. a1555 J. Bradford in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) III. App. xlv. 135 With theyr Pockeye Plasteres, and Sores. 1600 S. Rowlands Letting of Humors Blood Epigram ix. sig. A8 But neuer in like pockie heate before. 1658 W. Johnson tr. F. Würtz Surgeons Guid ii. xviii. 129 Mercurial Ointment is good for lameness and pocky biles. 1701 J. Harvey Scelera Aquarum Pref. Their Nature being better understood, a priori from the Knowledge of their Causes, both Scorbutick and Pocky Complications. 1753 Philos. Trans. 1751–2 (Royal Soc.) 47 504 A pledgit dipp'd in the pocky matter was applied to the excoriated part. 1822 J. M. Good Study Med. IV. 638 The pocky itch is so denominated from the resemblance of the pustules to minute small-pox. 1843 T. Watson Lect. Physic II. lxxxix. 781 This has needlessly been made a separate species of itch, scabies purulenta, pocky itch. 1964 Listener 30 Apr. 730/3 Scholars don't regard their function this quarter-centennial year as involving..scratching pocky boils. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2022). pockyadj.2 Originally Scottish regional (Orkney). Designating a form of cloud, esp. cumulus, having rounded festoons on its undersurface. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > cloud > [adjective] > other specific shapes or formations wavy1796 comoid1818 volumy1827 stratiform1843 pocky1862 noctilucent1910 1862 C. Clouston in A. Mitchell Pop. Weather Progn. Scotl. 15 I first observed this kind of cloud (cumulous-like festoons of drapery) on 5th March 1822... When properly developed, it was always followed by a storm or gale within twenty-four hours. It is called ‘Pocky cloud’ by our [Orkney] sailors. 1894 Times 18 Apr. 4/7 ‘Pocky cloud’ was seen over London at about 9 20 a.m. moving from south. 1902 Geogr. Jrnl. 20 432 The black ‘cauliflower’ cloud, reminiscent of the mammary or ‘pocky’ cloud of Clouston. 1968 K. J. Shapiro Selected Poems 318 The pocky cloud mammato-cumulus comes on. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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