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单词 sillyhow
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sillyhown.

Brit. /ˈsɪlɪhaʊ/, U.S. /ˈsɪliˌhaʊ/, Scottish English /ˈsɪlɪhʌʊ/
Forms:

α. 1500s sely-how; Scottish 1700s–1800s sely-how, 1800s seelie-hoo', 1800s seely-hoo', 1800s seely-how.

β. 1600s sillie-how, 1600s syllie-hoe, 1600s– silly-how; English regional (northern) 1800s– silly-hew, 1800s– silly-hue; also Scottish 1800s silly-hoo, 1900s– sillie-hoo.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: seely adj., seely adj., English how , houve n.
Etymology: Originally < seely adj. (compare seely adj. 2) + how, variant of houve n. In β. forms < silly adj. (compare silly adj. 1a) + how, variant of houve n. Compare Scots halie hoo , hely hoo , etc. (compare quot. 1710) and happie hoo (19th cent. or earlier). Compare also German †Glückshaube, literally ‘cap of luck, cap of happiness’ (1808 or earlier; also (with diminutive suffix) †Glückshäubchen (1737 or earlier)).In later use sometimes reinterpreted after more recent uses of silly adj. (e.g. silly adj. 2b); compare:1894 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words at Silly-hue Silly means child's, or childish.
Now chiefly Scottish and English regional (chiefly northern)
= caul n.1 5b.
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1574 J. Jones Briefe Disc. Growing & Liuing Things 26 Termed in Greeke..Chorion, Secundina of the Latines, of most in English, the Sely how.
1616 A. Roberts Treat. Witchcraft 66 That naturall couer where with some children are borne, and is called by our women, the sillie how.
1648 G. Daniel Eclog. ii. 25 May wee not pull The Syllie-Hoe..Away? but tarrie Infants, in the wombe Of Ignorance.
1710 T. Ruddiman in G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneis (new ed.) Gloss. at How In Scotland the women call a haly or sely How..a film or membrane stretched over the heads of Children new born.
1777 J. Brand Observ. Pop. Antiq. App. 367 Various were the Superstitions, about half a Century ago, concerning a certain membranous Covering, commonly called the Silly How, that was sometimes found about the Heads of new-born Infants.
a1866 W. Anderson Rhymes (1867) 67 (note) Anyone possessing a Seelyhoo' legally is always progressing in fortune.
1894 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words (at cited word) The silly-hue is usually preserved, and is believed to sympathise with the person whose face it covered.
1922 Trans. Lancs. & Cheshire Antiquarian Soc. 38 85 The use of an animal's caul as an amulet is unusual, but a child's caul or ‘silly-how’, as it is sometimes termed, was at one time considered a very valuable possession.
1971 K. Thomas Relig. & Decline of Magic vii. 188 Along with them went the belief that the infant's expectation of life could be divined from a scrutiny of the after-birth, or that good fortune would accompany the child born with the caul (or ‘sillyhow’) over its head.
2006 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 21 Dec. 80/1 The sillyhow (literally a happy hood) of the poem's title is another word for a caul.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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