单词 | scrid |
释义 | scridn. U.S. regional (chiefly New England). A fragment cut, torn, or broken from a main piece; a scrap or shred. Also figurative. Cf. screed n.1 1a. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > a separate part > a fragment > torn off cloutc1325 rug?a1505 avulsion1678 scrid1815 rending1859 tearing1891 1815 L. C. Ware Let. Nov. in E. W. Allen et al. Memorial Joseph & Lucy Clark Allen (1891) ii. 48 The little scrids of information I could pick up. 1860 Atlantic Monthly Jan. 7/2 They're glass chips, and brittle shavings, slender pinkish scrids. 1879 in W. B. Lapham & S. P. Maxim Hist. Paris, Maine (1884) i. xxx. 250 Man may erect land marks, pile up scrids of musty paper and call them records. 1914 Dial. Notes 4 79 He et every skrid. 1992 S. King Dolores Claiborne (1993) 291 When they laid Joe on the table..[and] opened his hands, a little piece of white nylon fell outta one; a scrid of a lady's slip. 2016 Portland (Maine) Press Herald (Electronic ed.) 1 Oct. a1 Although it is a writing class, in between exercises I feel obligated to pass along a scrid of wisdom. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1815 |
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