| 单词 | red ettin |
| 释义 | > as lemmasred ettin red ettin n. (also with capital initials) [ < red adj. + eten n.] originally Scottish a kind of monster; (also) a bloodthirsty or bad-tempered person. ΚΠ 1528 D. Lindsay Dreme 45 Mony vther plesand storye Off the reid etin, and the gyir carlyng. a1614 J. Melville Autobiogr. & Diary (1842) 160 The Guisians, and the rest of these monstruus Read-eattins in France, quha celebrat that bludie drunken feast of Bartholomew in Paris. 1821 Edinb. Mag. & Literary Misc. Apr. 351/2 Sic red-aitens, whase moolie geir is atween them an' their wits. 1878 J. L. Robertson Poems 91 Lauchs till himsel', an' nods his pow, An' chuckles like a wee red etyn. 1973 M. Dean-Smith in V. Newall Witch Figure iii. 60 He compared it with the vernacular story of the Red Ettin. < as lemmas |
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