单词 | birze |
释义 | birzen. Scottish. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > [noun] > bruise brusurea1375 frousshure1477 bruise1533 wan1533 battering1558 squat1578 intuse1590 battery1594 crush1601 contusiona1616 sugillation1623 mishanter1754 stone bruise1805 rainbow1810 birze1818 pound1862 strawberry1921 1818 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. (abridged ed.) Birse, brize, a bruise. 1822 J. Galt Sir Andrew Wylie III. xxxiv. 292 My brother..has met wi' a severe birz and contusion. 2. The action or an act of pushing, esp. through a crowd; (hence) a struggle to proceed against a pressing mass or force. Also: pressure, esp. that of a crowd. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impelling or driving > pushing and pulling > [noun] > pushing shoving1297 thrustingc1380 pushing1527 birze1825 1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. at Birse The act of pressing; often used to denote the pressure made by a crowd; as, ‘We had an awfu' birse.’ a1838 T. Blyth Pirate Ship (1879) 139 The sairest birse I'd warsal throu' Wi yer neb to dirk. 1894 Arbroath Herald 11 Oct. 2/3 He gae his hat a birz on. 1895 G. Williams Scarbraes 49 I'm nae able to follow a pu'pit prayer. Gie's a wordie o' guid rough hameowre wark, for I'll hae a geyan rough birs afore I get warslet thro'. 1925 in Sc. National Dict. (1931) I. 138/2 [Buchan] It was a gey birze, shivvin against the win'. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021). birzev. Chiefly Scottish. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > pressing, pressure, or squeezing > press or squeeze [verb (transitive)] > crush breakc900 to-bruisec1000 swatchea1300 to-gnidea1300 defoulc1300 to-crushc1300 thring13.. squatcha1325 to-squatc1325 oppressa1382 crush?a1400 thronga1400 dequassc1400 birzec1425 crazec1430 frayc1460 defroysse1480 to-quashc1480 croose1567 pletter1598 becrush1609 mortify1609 winder1610 crackle1611 quest1647 scrouge1755 grush1827 jam1832 roll1886 c1425 (c1400) Laud Troy-bk. l. 5580 (MED) Kyng Philicais Ector a-vised How he Gregeis sclow & bursed. a1450 (a1400) Siege Jerusalem (BL Add.) (1932) l. 829 Birssede [a1400 Laud Burnes wer brayned & brosed to deþ]. c1480 (a1400) St. Vincent l. 395 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 270 Sancte vincent tormentit ves, byrsit, beft, [and] brynt. ?1553 (c1501) G. Douglas Palice of Honour (London) iii. l. 1924 in Shorter Poems (1967) 118 He..byrsyt all my bonys [1579 Edinb. brissit all my banis]. 1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1895) II. 28 Nocht lang eftir, he fell aff a horse, quhair he was sa birset, that he was vnable to gouerne. c1600 Diurnal of Remarkable Occurrents (1833) 293 Borne to jybbit, becaus he wes birsit with the buttis. 1612 in R. Pitcairn Criminal Trials Scotl. (1833) III. 243 He..brak and birset his haill intrallis within him. 1720 A. Ramsay Patie & Roger 6 Till, Birss'd beneath the Burden, thou cry Dool. 1829 G. Wilson Sc. Laverock 185 He birz'd his banes, an' brack his crown, An' scratch'd nose, mouth, an eyes. 1841 J. Imlah Poems & Songs 85 When our heels the maist are heichten'd Mark how cannilie he gaes, Ane wad think the fule was frichten'd Lest he birzed his bits o'taes. 2. Frequently with adverb or prepositional phrase. a. transitive. To apply pressure to; to push, press, squeeze. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > pressing, pressure, or squeezing > press or squeeze [verb (transitive)] thrutchc888 distrainc1381 thrust1382 pressc1390 compressc1400 thresta1425 bruisec1465 thrumble1513 squize1548 squiss1558 scruze1590 squeeze1601 vice1602 squish1647 birzea1774 squeege1787 appress1789 squidge1881 punch1903 mash1930 a1774 R. Fergusson Poems (1785) 182 The thrifty gudewife sees Her lasses kirn, or birze the dainty cheese. 1778 A. Ross Helenore (ed. 2) 92 Kisses upon her he birs'd on anew. 1790 A. Shirrefs Poems 346 For they're ay birsing in their spurs, Whare they can get them. 1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. at Birse up I saw Sisyphus..Birzing a heavy stane up a high brae. 1840 Sc. Christian Herald 18 July 464/2 We try wi' a' our micht to birze the great tree o' Gospel light and Gospel grace into our ain bit nut-shell. 1893 R. L. Stevenson Catriona xv. 169 It seemed to understand it's employ brawly, birzing the saft rope between the neb of it and a crunkled jag o' stane. 1917 C. Murray Sough o' War (1918) 25 I full my pipe wi' bogie-rowe, an' birze the dottle doon. 1976 R. Bulter Shaela 49 Juist bore an dreel an gurm an shap, Roog in da siller athin dir lap, Dan birze da aert for da hidmist drap. 1985 D. Purves Whuppitie Stourie (SCOTS) Cuddlin hir bairn till she near birzed its braith oot. 1997 C. De Luca Wast wi da Valkyries 33 Whin we left fur hame Sixpences i wir löfs shö birsed. b. intransitive. To push, press, squeeze. Also transitive: to make (one's way) by pushing. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impact > striking > striking in specific manner > strike in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > strike with pushing action > give a push > jostle shovec1290 hurla1425 thrumble?a1513 jostle1546 push1735 birze1793 thrutchc1837 be-elbow1847 1793 ‘T. Thrum’ Look before ye Loup 27 If they birze forward into stations that they canna fill they'll be despised. a1801 R. Gall Poems & Songs (1819) 32 He heard a boo ahint a hedge, While Meg birsed through wi' speed, tho' thorny. 1842 C. Sinclair Sc. Courtiers & Court 116 Balloch castle..was erected during the proscription of the Macgregors, of whose lands the Campbells gradually contrived to possess themselves, following the ambitious advice of an ancestor to ‘birze yont’—keep moving onwards. 1915 T. W. Paterson Auld Saws 101 See them bittlin ane anither, Birzin for a place. 1949 in Sc. National Dict. (1976) X. 375/1 [Aberdeenshire] Ye'll boo the hannle if ye birze ower hard on't. 1977 N. Shepherd Living Mountain Foreword p. v Bulldozers birze their way into the hill. 1983 W. L. Lorimer & R. L. C. Lorimer New Test. in Scots Matt. xix. 38 A caumel will shuner birze throu the ee o a needle nor a rich man win intil the Kingdom o God. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1818v.c1425 |
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