单词 | skire |
释义 | † skireadj. Obsolete. 1. Clear of, free from, something morally bad. ΚΠ c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 12194 All þatt ahhte off eorþliȝ þing. Þatt godess þeowwess haffdenn..i þiss middell ærd Iss all skir fra þe deofell. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 8015 Þatt genge. þatt wass milde. & mec..& off galnesse skir. & fre. 2. a. Of water: Pure, clear. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > water > [adjective] > properties or characteristics of water > pure or clear livingeOE fairOE purec1300 cleara1400 skirea1400 crystalc1425 lucent1820 a1400–50 Alexander 2119 Scamandra þe slire [read skire: Dubl. skyr] flode þe scriptour it callis. c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness l. 1776 Þay..Asscaped ouer þe skyre watteres & scaþed þe walles. b. Of colours, flames, etc.: Clear; bright. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > intensity of light > [adjective] > bright shininga900 lighteOE lightlyOE sheenOE torhtOE shirea1000 steepa1000 shimmeringc1000 brightOE strongOE clear1297 fair?a1300 bright-shininga1387 merrya1393 skirea1400 lucident14.. shimc1400 staringc1400 luculentc1420 splendent1474 illuminousc1485 lucentc1500 bloominga1522 sheer1565 prelucent1568 faculent1575 splendant1578 lucid1591 neat1591 shine1596 translucent1596 well-lighted1606 nitid1615 lucible1623 dilucid1653 translucid1657 hard1660 the world > matter > colour > quality of colour > [adjective] > vivid or bright brightOE skirea1400 livelyc1425 quickc1425 freshlyc1426 flamingc1450 vive1591 florid1642 vivid1665 hot1673 living1699 aurorean1880 vibrant1971 a1400–50 Alexander 467 To skyre skarlet hewe skyftis hire face. c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 12500 [The lightning] skirmyt in the skewes with a skyre low. a1585 Ld. Polwart Flyting with Montgomerie 533 With flying fyreflaughts burning bright and skyre [v.r. schyre]. 3. Conspicuous or notable, esp. in respect of harmful qualities.This sense, which appears only in the Destr. Troy (cf. also ll. 12700 and 13616) is probably due to the requirements of alliteration. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > infamy or notoriety > [adjective] infamousc1380 unfamousc1380 famousa1425 infamed1520 skirec1540 notorious1549 infame1555 stigmatical1591 unsilent1597 exemplifieda1637 flagrant1706 flagitious1741 dreaded1810 c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 8897 In anythyng..Þat hase skapet vs to skathe, ne to skyre harme. c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 13397 Ascatus the skir, þat skathill was in elde. 4. (See quot. 1825 and cf. skire adv.) ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > [adjective] > insanity or madness > affected with woodc725 woodsekc890 giddyc1000 out of (by, from, of) wit or one's witc1000 witlessc1000 brainsickOE amadc1225 lunaticc1290 madc1330 sickc1340 brain-wooda1375 out of one's minda1387 frenetica1398 fonda1400 formada1400 unwisea1400 brainc1400 unwholec1400 alienate?a1425 brainless1434 distract of one's wits1470 madfula1475 furious1475 distract1481 fro oneself1483 beside oneself1490 beside one's patience1490 dementa1500 red-wood?1507 extraught1509 misminded1509 peevish1523 bedlam-ripe1525 straughta1529 fanatic1533 bedlama1535 daft1540 unsounda1547 stark raving (also staring) mad1548 distraughted1572 insane1575 acrazeda1577 past oneself1576 frenzy1577 poll-mad1577 out of one's senses1580 maddeda1586 frenetical1588 distempered1593 distraught1597 crazed1599 diswitted1599 idle-headed1599 lymphatical1603 extract1608 madling1608 distracteda1616 informala1616 far gone1616 crazy1617 March mada1625 non compos mentis1628 brain-crazed1632 demented1632 crack-brained1634 arreptitiousa1641 dementate1640 dementated1650 brain-crackeda1652 insaniated1652 exsensed1654 bedlam-witteda1657 lymphatic1656 mad-like1679 dementative1685 non compos1699 beside one's gravity1716 hyte1720 lymphated1727 out of one's head1733 maddened1735 swivel-eyed1758 wrong1765 brainsickly1770 fatuous1773 derangedc1790 alienated1793 shake-brained1793 crack-headed1796 flighty1802 wowf1802 doitrified1808 phrenesiac1814 bedlamite1815 mad-braineda1822 fey1823 bedlamitish1824 skire1825 beside one's wits1827 as mad as a hatter1829 crazied1842 off one's head1842 bemadded1850 loco1852 off one's nut1858 off his chump1864 unsane1867 meshuga1868 non-sane1868 loony1872 bee-headed1879 off one's onion1881 off one's base1882 (to go) off one's dot1883 locoed1885 screwy1887 off one's rocker1890 balmy or barmy on (or in) the crumpet1891 meshuggener1892 nutty1892 buggy1893 bughouse1894 off one's pannikin1894 ratty1895 off one's trolley1896 batchy1898 twisted1900 batsc1901 batty1903 dippy1903 bugs1904 dingy1904 up the (also a) pole1904 nut1906 nuts1908 nutty as a fruitcake1911 bugged1920 potty1920 cuckoo1923 nutsy1923 puggled1923 blah1924 détraqué1925 doolally1925 off one's rocket1925 puggle1925 mental1927 phooey1927 crackers1928 squirrelly1928 over the edge1929 round the bend1929 lakes1934 ding-a-ling1935 wacky1935 screwball1936 dingbats1937 Asiatic1938 parlatic1941 troppo1941 up the creek1941 screwed-up1943 bonkers1945 psychological1952 out to lunch1955 starkers1956 off (one's) squiff1960 round the twist1960 yampy1963 out of (also off) one's bird1966 out of one's skull1967 whacked out1969 batshit1971 woo-woo1971 nutso1973 out of (one's) gourd1977 wacko1977 off one's meds1986 the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adjective] > utter or absolute shirea1225 purec1300 properc1380 plainc1395 cleana1400 fine?a1400 entirec1400 veryc1400 starka1425 utterc1430 utterlyc1440 merec1443 absolute1531 outright1532 cleara1535 bloodyc1540 unproachable1544 flat1553 downright1577 sheer1583 right-down?1586 single1590 peremptory1601 perfecta1616 downa1625 implicit1625 every way1628 blank1637 out-and-outa1642 errant1644 inaccessional1651 thorough-paced1651 even down1654 dead1660 double-dyed1667 through stitch1681 through-stitched1682 total1702 thoroughgoing1719 thorough-sped1730 regular1740 plumb1748 hollow1751 unextenuated1765 unmitigated1783 stick, stock, stone dead1796 positive1802 rank1809 heart-whole1823 skire1825 solid1830 fair1835 teetotal1840 bodacious1845 raw1856 literal1857 resounding1873 roaring1884 all out1893 fucking1893 pink1896 twenty-four carat1900 grand slam1915 stone1928 diabolical1933 fricking1937 righteous1940 fecking1952 raving1954 1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. Skire, pure, mere; as, ‘a skire fool’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online December 2020). † skirev. Obsolete. rare. reflexive. To cleanse, clear, or purify (oneself). ΘΚΠ society > morality > virtue > purity > make pure [verb (reflexive)] skirea1300 a1300 Cursor Mundi 28058 Þat þai ripe wele þair aun boke, And skir þam sua wit þair in-sight Þair conscience..clene and bright. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2021). skireadv. Scottish. Sheer; quite; altogether. Also elliptical quite mad. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adverb] > utterly allOE allOE outlyOE thwert-outc1175 skerea1225 thoroughc1225 downrightc1275 purec1300 purelyc1300 faira1325 finelyc1330 quitec1330 quitelyc1330 utterlyc1374 outerlya1382 plainlya1382 straighta1387 allutterly1389 starkc1390 oultrelya1393 plata1393 barec1400 outrightc1400 incomparablyc1422 absolutely?a1425 simpliciter?a1425 staringa1425 quitementa1450 properlyc1450 directly1455 merec1475 incomparable1482 preciselyc1503 clean?1515 cleara1522 plain1535 merely1546 stark1553 perfectly1555 right-down1566 simply1574 flat1577 flatly1577 skire1581 plumb1588 dead?1589 rankly1590 stark1593 sheera1600 start1599 handsmooth1600 peremptory1601 sheerly1601 rank1602 utter1619 point-blank1624 proofa1625 peremptorily1626 downrightly1632 right-down1646 solid1651 clever1664 just1668 hollow1671 entirely1673 blank1677 even down1677 cleverly1696 uncomparatively1702 subtly1733 point1762 cussed1779 regularly1789 unqualifiedly1789 irredeemably1790 positively1800 cussedly1802 heart1812 proper1816 slick1818 blankly1822 bang1828 smack1828 pluperfectly1831 unmitigatedly1832 bodaciously1833 unredeemedly1835 out of sight1839 bodacious1845 regular1846 thoroughly1846 ingrainedly1869 muckinga1880 fucking1893 motherless1898 self1907 stone1928 sideways1956 terminally1974 1581 J. Hamilton Catholik Traictise i. f. 21 Sum in Angus exponing the same ran skyr daft. 1766 A. Nicol Poems Several Subj. 95 Our land is now quite skier naked made. 1822 Howden in D. H. Edwards Mod. Sc. Poets (1881) 2nd Ser. 35 ‘The man's gane skire’, muttered Matt. 1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. at Skeir In Fife..the phrase is, skyre-mad, i.e., quite insane. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < adj.c1175v.a1300adv.1581 |
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