singedadj.1
/sɪndʒd/ a. That has been subjected to the process of singeing; scorched or slightly burnt, or presenting the appearance of this; parched.
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c1386 G. Chaucer Nun's Tale 25 Milk and broun breed..Seynd Bacon and somtyme an Ey or tweye.
1426 J. Lydgate tr. G. de Guileville Pilgrimage Life Man 13703 I sawh a wekke..Pyled and seynt as any kaat.
1542 Plowman's Prol. in Wks. G. Chaucer (new ed.) f. cxix He knewe well by his senged snoute..He was a man wont to walke about.
1594 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 i. iv. 38+2 Where Pluto in his firie Waggon sits. Ryding amidst the singde and parched smoakes.
1637 J. Milton Comus 32 Summer drouth, or singed aire Never scorch thy tresses faire.
1693 J. Dryden tr. Persius Satires vi. 83 Shall I be fed With sodden Nettles, and a sing'd Sow's head?
1700 J. Dryden Chaucer's Cock & Fox in Fables 224 Rashers of sindg'd Bacon, on the Coals.
1725 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey III. xiv. 475 Then the sindg'd members they with skill divide.
1820 W. Scott Monastery II. iii. 94 Flesh, which, in its sable and singed shape, seemed [etc.].
1829 E. Griffith et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom VIII. 42 Singed Grous, Pterocles Exustus.
1884 W. S. B. McLaren Spinning Woollen & Worsted (ed. 2) 27 A yellow singed appearance is given by using soap with much resin, or much alkali.
b. singed cat n. in allusive use (see quots.). U.S. (Parallel Scottish allusive uses incorporate the related form singed adj.2 (cf. quot. 1737 at singed adj.2).)
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the mind > attention and judgement > lack of beauty > ugliness > [noun] > ugly person
hog's face1578
kex1619
troll1697
singed cat1836
ogre1843
plug-ugly1862
partan-face1895
bad looker1898
snout-face1923
Mr Potato Head1952
mieskeit1968
fuglya1970
grot1970
minger1992
1836 Spirit of Times 9 Apr. 61/1 Without our Jersey friends bring on a ‘singed cat’, or some nag, now outside the fence, turns up a trump, the above comprise the entries for the 4 mile day.
1837 J. C. Neal Charcoal Sketches 48 His new friend, however, proved..to be like a singed cat, much better than he looked.
1849 T. C. Haliburton Old Judge I. ii. 44 It don't do to hang a feller for his looks, after all, that's a fact; for that crittur is like a singed cat, better nor he seems.
1859 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 2) at Singed cat We reckon there'll be fun; as a Cincinnati paper says Pryne is a perfect singed cat.
1859 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 2) Singed Cat, an epithet applied to a person whose appearance does him injustice.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
singedadj.2
/ˈsɪŋᵻt/, /sɪŋd/, U.S. /ˈsɪŋət/, /sɪŋd/, Scottish English /ˈsɪŋᵻt/, /sɪŋd/ Scottish (and northern).
= singed adj.1 Also figurative and in combinations.
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1706 Blythsome Wedding in J. Watson Choice Coll. Scots Poems (1977) I. 64 A sing'd sheep's head and a haggize.
1737 A. Ramsay Coll. Scots Prov. (1750) 40 He's like the singed cat, better than he's likely.
1789 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 472 Singet Sawnie, Singet Sawnie, are ye herding the Pennie?
1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Singit-like, puny, shrivelled.
a1843 J. Stewart Sketches Sc. Char. (1857) 64 (E.D.D.) Your singit shargie o' a laddie.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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