单词 | slaister |
释义 | slaistern. Scottish and northern dialect. A dirty or disgusting mess or compound; the act of working at or making this. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > [noun] > dirty mess slaistera1774 a1774 R. Fergusson Poems (1785) 171 Ye lowns that troke in doctor's stuff, You'll now hae unco slaisters. 1823 W. Scott St. Ronan's Well I. ii. 41 ‘Ay, and are you at the painting trade yet?’ said Meg; ‘an unco slaister ye used to make with it lang syne.’ 1832 T. Carlyle Let. 21 May in Coll. Lett. T. & J. W. Carlyle (1977) VI. 150 They are painting the dining room, lobby and staircase; and to avoid such a slaister for the future, doing it in oil. 1857– in Eng. Dial. Dict. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022). slaisterv. Scottish and northern dialect. (For fuller illustration of forms and senses see the Eng. Dial. Dict.) 1. intransitive. To eat, work, etc., in a slobbering, wet, or dirty manner. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirty person > behave as dirty person [verb (intransitive)] slotter1553 pig1637 rubble1637 slaister1756 slattern1851 1756 M. Calderwood Lett. & Jrnls. (1884) 64 The maids..have nothing to do but slester and wash. 1816 W. Scott Antiquary I. x. 229 Ye'll be for your breakfast?..hae, there's a soup parridge for ye—it will set ye better to be slaistering at them and the lapper-milk than middling wi' Mr. Lovel's head. 1827 W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd 89 Loud gaups o' lauchter shook the bank, As Johnnie slaister'd throu' the stank. 2. transitive. To plaster in this fashion. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > soiled condition > soil [verb (transitive)] > smear smear971 besmearc1050 slobber1529 slubber1530 smore1530 to-ray1562 slubbera1586 blur1592 beblur1598 beslubber1598 besmother1598 besmouche1600 slur1602 illine1615 slerga1758 slaister1773 gaum?1825 smarm1847 slob1851 maum1888 1773 R. Fergusson Auld Reikie 9 Look at that Head, and think if there The Pomet slaister'd up his Hair! This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1774v.1756 |
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