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单词 ranty-tanty
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ranty-tantyn.

Brit. /rantɪˈtanti/, U.S. /ˌræn(t)iˈtæn(t)i/, Scottish English /rantɪˈtantɪ/
Origin: Of unknown origin.
Etymology: Origin unknown.An early print (c1701) of the text cited in quot. a1700 reads ranty, tanty (with comma). It is uncertain whether this quot. shows the plant name. Sc. National Dict. at rantie-tantie and Eng. Dial. Dict. at ranty tanty also record use of the word in Scotland as the name of a drink distilled from heath and other vegetable substances. Eng. Dial. Dict. also records use as the name of a different plant, the broad-leaved dock. Sc. National Dict. notes an instance of rantie tantie from the 18th cent. in the sense ‘fornication’, although this may represent an independent formation (compare earlier rantum-scantum n. and rant v. 3).
Scottish and English regional (northern) Now rare.
Either of two edible plants, a cornfield weed with a reddish leaf, probably sheep's sorrel, Rumex acetosella, and common sorrel, R. acetosa.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Polygonaceae (dock and allies) > [noun] > dock and allies > sorrel
sour dockc1325
sorrelc1440
sourock?a1505
sheep's sorrel1578
Tours sorrel1578
green sauce1620
moonwort1697
ranty-tantya1700
tree sorrel1753
sheep-sorrel1806
sour grass1866
a1700 in J. Maidment New Bk. Old Ballads (1844) 13 With croudy moudy they fed me, Lang kail and ranty tanty.
1829 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words (new ed.) Ranty-tanty... There is a troublesome weed in corn fields of this name.
1893 T. F. Henderson Old World Scotl. iv. 51 The natural vegetable of Scotland was the green kale, of which nettles, leeks, onions, ranty-tanty (sorrel), carrots and turnips were, most of them, probably late..and partial rivals.
1942 O. Jespersen & P. Christophersen Mod. Eng. Gram. VI. x. 182 Ranty-tanty (Sc.).
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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