单词 | sharny |
释义 | sharnyadj. dialect chiefly Scottish. a. Bedaubed with dung. So sharny-faced adj.; sharny-peat n. (see quot. 1808). ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > dirtiness or soiling with specific kinds of dirt > [adjective] > dirty with excrement beshitteneOE shittenc1405 feculent1590 ordured1595 sharnya1625 shitty1768 crappy1846 manurey1890 cacky1937 society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > other organic fuels > [noun] > dung casard1499 casing1516 sharny-peat1808 dung cake1824 buffalo-chips1840 mist1852 argol1856 prairie coal1889 cattle chips1903 squaw wood1914 a1625 F. Sempill Blythsum Bridal v, in D. Herd Anc. & Mod. Sc. Songs (1776) II. 25 Flea-lugged sharney-fac'd Lawrie. 1737 A. Ramsay Coll. Scots Prov. (1750) 125 Ye shine like the sunny side of a sharney weght. 1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Sharny-peat, a cake consisting of cows' dung mixed with coal-dross, dried in the sun, and used by the poor for fuel in some places. 1821 W. Scott Pirate I. v. 103 Nane of your sharney peats, but good aik timber. 1871 W. Alexander Johnny Gibb x. 77 Gyaun in owre's bed wi's sharnie beets on. 1896 S. R. Crockett Cleg Kelly xliv. 291 Ye sufferin', shairny blastie o' the byres. b. as n. (see quot. 1825). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping of cattle > [noun] > housing or sheltering of cattle > worker in or cleaner of cattle shelter byre-mucker1790 byre-man1814 byre-woman1820 sharny1825 1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. at Sharn Sharnie, a designation given to the person to whom the charge of the cows is committed in winter. 1897 E. W. Hamilton Outlaws of Marches xviii. 207 Hout! you auld sharnie... Gae you round to the byre and see till the kye. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.a1625 |
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