单词 | ripples |
释义 | ripplesn. Scottish. Now rare. A painful condition affecting the back, loins, or kidneys; (in early use also) a venereal disease, spec. gonorrhoea. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > pain in specific parts > [noun] > in back back-ache?c1225 ripples1568 lumbago1684 ripplec1700 bellon1794 rachialgia1807 painter's colic1822 notalgia1833 1568 J. Rowll Cursing l. 58 in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS (1928) II. 279 Rumbursin Rippilis or bellythra. 1586 Indictment in Scott's Minstr. Scot. Bord. (1869) 457 That the bishop of St. Andrews laboured under sindrie diseases, sic as the ripples. 1596 P. Lowe Easie Method to cure Spanish Sicknes iv. sig. E4 This sicknes [sc. the second kind of Gonorrhea] is called in our tongue the Reples. a1600 (?c1535) tr. H. Boece Hist. Scotl. (Mar Lodge) (1946) f. 415v Be continuale imperceptible flux of his naturale generacioun (quhilk we call the passioun of the rippillis) he was ouresett. 1623 Rec. Perth Kirk Session 14 May Scho anserit scho cureit him, bot that it wes the rippillis quhilk he hed as scho knew be his watter thik and quhyte lyk syit sowanis. 1681 S. Colvil Mock Poem i. 36 Priests diseased of the Riples, Hirpling through the Streets like Criples. 1728 A. Ramsay Advice to Mr. —— 8 For warld's wasters, like poor cripples, Look blunt with poverty and ripples. 1787 W. Taylor Scots Poems 143 It tempered weel our mony-plies, Ca'd ripples frae our backs. 1898 E. W. Hamilton Mawkin of Flow xvi. 218 I'm never the same man since the ripples took me. 1926 ‘H. MacDiarmid’ Drunk Man looks at Thistle 24 But Man's a fiky bairn Wi' bellythraw, ripples, and worm-i'-the-cheek! This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1568 |
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