单词 | rammack |
释义 | rammackv. regional (chiefly British). 1. ΚΠ 1770 in Rec. Early Hist. Boston (1887) XVIII. 30 Were it possible to romack up any absurd obsolete notion, which might have seemed calculated to propagate slavish doctrines. b. intransitive. To rummage about; to clamber around. ΚΠ a1895 S. Hewett MS Coll. Devonshire Words in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1904) V. 24/2 'Ots rammicking about there vor? 1898 B. Kirkby Lakeland Words 123 Rummack, aboot t'siam as rensil [= to make a great commotion]. 1904 in Eng. Dial. Dict. V. 181/2 [Westmorland] What's thoo rummacking aboot efter i' th' loft? c. transitive. To turn (things) upside down by rummaging; (also) to search through or ransack (a place). ΚΠ a1895 S. Hewett MS Coll. Devonshire Words in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1904) V. 24/2 Dawntee rammick the things in that drawer, thre's a gude cheel. 1953 V. Randolph & G. P. Wilson Down in Holler 276 I been a-ramackin' the whole country for sang-root, but I cain't find none nowheres. 2. intransitive. To rush about furiously; to romp or gambol boisterously. Now rare. ΚΠ a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) (at cited word) Rommack, to romp or gambol boisterously. 1869 R. B. Peacock Gloss. Dial. Hundred of Lonsdale 69/2 Rummack, to romp boisterously. 1872 W. Besant & J. Rice Ready-money Mortiboy III. xi. 189 There was the white speckly hen only last week; and a parcel of young tearbacons a-rommackin' all over the field. 1898 G. Miller Gloss. Warwicks. Dial. in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1904) V. 145/2 What a plaguy lot them boys of yourn be every night; they be a rammacking either up town or down town. Derivatives ˈrammacking adj. and n. ΚΠ c1844 J. Clare Later Poems (1984) I. 365 She's a romekin, slomekin thing And as wild as a filly let loose in the spring. 1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words II. 180 Rommaking, playing and romping about very rudely and boisterously. 1877 F. Ross et al. Gloss. Words Holderness 112 Rammakin, rambling, scrambling. a1895 E. Smith MS Coll. Warwicks. Words in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1904) V. 145/2 Rommacking would imply the presence, or danger, of vulgarity in the fun, and on that account, desirable to discourage. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1770 |
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