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单词 purpie
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purpieadj.

Brit. /ˈpəːpi/, U.S. /ˈpərpi/, Scottish English /ˈpʌrpɪ/
Forms: pre-1700 1700s– purpie, pre-1700 1900s– purpy, 1700s purpey.
Origin: Probably a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: purpure adj.
Etymology: Probably alteration of purpure adj., with remodelling of the ending (perhaps after adjectives in -y suffix1).With purpie fever (see quot. 1651) compare earlier purple fever n.
Scottish.
= purple adj.Recorded earliest in purpie fever: see purple fever n.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > purple or purpleness > [adjective]
purpurine1300
purpurec1400
purple1415
purpurate?c1422
purple-coloured1567
porphyrite1601
purpie1651
purpurean1656
blattean1658
purpureal1708
porphyrous1798
Babylonian1846
1651 Ld. Wariston Diary (1919) II. 124 Many dying dayly of the purpy fever.
1683 in A. M. Munro Rec. Old Aberdeen (1899) I. 139 Ane long coat of ane purpie collour.
1773 R. Fergusson Poems II. 109 Now Morn, with bonny Purpie-smiles, Kisses the Air-cock o' St. Giles.
1844 J. Lemon Lays St. Mungo 49 We laiggart a' our cheeks Wi' the bonnie purpie dye.
1949 People's Jrnl. 15 Jan. (Aberdeen City ed.) 3/4 When a girl I was asked by my grandmother to go to the chemist and buy twopence worth of purpie sticks.
a1975 S. G. Smith tr. A. Blok in P. France & D. Glen European Poetry in Scotl. (1989) 70 Yon purpie birth-scaur On her richt shouther.
1996 W. N. Herbert Cabaret McGonagall 49 Thi purpie spires o rose-bay willa herb.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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