单词 | skrimming |
释义 | † skrimmingn. Scottish. Obsolete. Skirmishing; fighting. Also with reference to birds in flight: swooping, darting. Cf. skrim v. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > armed encounter > contending in battle > [noun] > manner of fighting > skirmishing bickering1297 skirmishingc1385 skrimming1487 pickeering1644 sparring1686 1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xix. 521 Thar wes ilk day Iustyng of wer, And scrymmyng [1489 Adv. scrymyn] maid full apertly. a1513 W. Dunbar Ballat Abbot of Tungland in Poems (1998) I. 59 The air was dirkit with the fowlis, That come..With skryking, skrymming and with scowlis. a1600 ( W. Stewart tr. H. Boece Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) II. l. 38900 Ane lang quhile thair he la, With greit scrymmyng and carmusche euerie da. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online June 2020). < |
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