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单词 scurrile
释义

scurrilescurriladj.

/ˈskʌrɪl/
Forms: 1500s–1600s scurrill, skurrill, 1600s skurrile, scuril, 1500s– scurrile, scurril.
Etymology: < French scurrile, †scurrille (14th cent.), or < Latin scurrīlis, < scurra buffoon.
Now somewhat archaic.
1. = scurrilous adj.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > malediction > [adjective] > ribald or scurrilous
foulOE
ribaldya1438
ribaldousc1440
villainous1470
ribald?a1500
ribaldious?1518
ribaldry1519
ribaldish?1533
rabulous1538
reprobriousa1539
ribaldrous1565
scurrile1567
profane1568
swearing1569
ribaldly1570
scurrilous1576
tarry1579
Fescennine verses1601
scogginly1620
ribaldrious1633
rotten in one's head1640
Billingsgate1652
promiscuous1753
blackguarding1789
blue1832
1567 T. Drant tr. Horace Arte of Poetrie sig. Bj If I, or you the taunting grace Can iudge from scurrill gere.
1592 A. Day Eng. Secretorie (rev. ed.) i. sig. C1 That it contain not base filthie or scurrile matter.
1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida i. iii. 148 With him Patroclus..Breakes scurrell iests. View more context for this quotation
1644 J. Milton Areopagitica 10 It had bin plainly partiall..to correct him for grave Cicero, and not for scurrill Plautus.
1701 N. Rowe Ambitious Step-mother ii. ii. 30 With scurrile Taunts and blackest Infamy They load my Name.
1838–43 T. Arnold Hist. Rome II. xxxvii. 479 Scurril songs, and gestures, and clapping of hands, were the only answer returned to him.
1854 R. C. Trench Synonyms New Test. xxxiv. 141 Which would attract many..whom scurrile buffoonery would only revolt and repel.
1883 R. W. Dixon Mano ii. v. 83 All which full oft she turned to scurril jest.
2. Apparently misused for: Rough, rugged, ‘unfriendly’.
ΘΚΠ
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > [adjective] > habitable > not
undwellablea1382
unhabitablea1382
inhabitablec1400
uninhabitable1448
unhospital1570
unhospitable1612
inhospitable1616
scurrile1632
unreceivable1634
dishabitable1642
disinhabitable1660
untenantablea1661
unliveable1834
1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. vi. 262 Wee came to the most scurrile and timorous Discent of the whole passage.
1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. ix. 423 Wee Coasted the scurrile and Rockey face of Norway.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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