单词 | pooty |
释义 | pootyn. English regional (Northamptonshire). The banded or grove snail, Cepaea nemoralis; (also pooty shell) the shell of this. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > order Pulmonifera > Inoperculata > family Helicidae > genus Helix > helix nemoralis or shell of pooty1821 wood-snail1831 grove-snail1861 1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel I. 10 Searching the pooty from the rushy dyke. 1825 J. Clare Let. 7 Feb. in J. W. Tibble & A. Tibble Prose of John Clare (1951) 183 I have been seriously and busily employed this last 3 weeks hunting Pooty shells. 1937 W. H. Auden in W. H. Auden & L. MacNeice Lett. from Iceland viii. 103 I'll never grant a more than passing beauty To pudge or pilewort, petty-chap or pooty. 1973 Country Life 5 Apr. 903/1 There are also a few pooties, John Clare's name for grove snails (Cepaea nemoralis) that are both banded and black. 1980 G. Nelson Charity's Child iii. 45 Do 'e remember..the pooty shells I collected? This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). pootyadj.α. 1800s– pooty; also U.S. regional 1800s pootty. β. U.S. regional 1800s putta, 1800s puttee, 1800s– putty, 1900s– puddy; English regional 1800s– putty; also Manx English 1800s– putty. colloquial, regional, and nursery. = pretty adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > pleasing appearance > [adjective] > pretty gentc1275 pretty1440 jant1638 dimber1665 belle1668 genty1701 prettyish1741 maidenish-looking1789 darling1805 pooty1825 pitty1826 purty1829 mooi1850 dotey1852 cute1868 1825 J. W. Carlyle Let. 13 Mar. in Coll. Lett. T. & J.W. Carlyle (1970) III. 302 She told me she was merely trying to turn up her eyes, as I did mine, it looked so very pooty! 1848 J. R. Lowell Biglow Papers 1st Ser. 8 The wannut logs shot sparkles out Towards the pootiest, bless her! 1850 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis II. xv. 147 She's a little money too..a pooty little bit of money. 1906 J. Galsworthy Man of Prop. ii. iii. 149 ‘You'll have room here’, he said, ‘for six or seven hundred dozen—a very pooty little cellar!’ 1932 W. H. Auden Orators iii. 104 That piss-proud prophet, that pooty redeemer. 2000 City Jrnl. (Nexis) Autumn 99 ‘You must be real rich,’ said the youth. ‘I bet it cost you a pooty penny.’ This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). pootyadv. colloquial, regional, and nursery. = pretty adv. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adverb] > to a considerable degree welleOE not a little1485 prettily1533 sensibly1563 pretty1565 considerably1673 considerablea1706 significantly1747 respectably1770 purty1797 appreciably1815 pooty1825 right smart1859 helder1883 sumfin1918 sumptin1924 sumthin1925 1825 J. Neal Brother Jonathan I. 5 A military personage, of ‘pooty considerable’ authority, in the province of Connecticut. 1843 ‘R. Carlton’ New Purchase I. 178 I starts off puttee considerable peert and brisk, considerin I was weak. 1905 B. Tarkington Conquest of Canaan i. 23 He blays dominoes pooty often in der room back off Louie Farbach's tsaloon. 2003 San Diego Union-Tribune (Nexis) 28 Sept. (Books section) 1 My fren, my fren, lissen pooty good to my estory! This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1821adj.1825adv.1825 |
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