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单词 spoach
释义

spoachv.

Brit. /spəʊtʃ/, U.S. /spoʊtʃ/, Scottish English /spotʃ/
Forms: Scottish pre-1700 1900s– spotch, 1800s spoatch, 1800s– spoach; English regional (Northumberland) 1800s spoach.
Origin: Apparently a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: poach v.2
Etymology: Apparently a variant of poach v.2 with prothetic s- . Compare similarly in Scots e.g. stramp v. (beside tramp v.1) and see further Sc. National Dict. at S.
Scottish (chiefly southern) and English regional (Northumberland). Now rare.
intransitive. To engage in poaching. Also: to hunt about or rummage (for something). Sc. National Dict. records this word (in sense ‘to poach’) as still in use in Roxburghshire in 1971.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > hunt [verb (intransitive)] > poach (land or water)
spoacha1585
poach1718
the world > action or operation > endeavour > searching or seeking > make a search [verb (intransitive)] > rummage or search thoroughly
ransackc1405
range1553
rig1565
rake1574
mouse1575
ferret1580
spoacha1585
rummage1625
scrimmage1843
fossick1871
roust1919
a1585 P. Hume Flyting with Montgomerie (Tullibardine) ix. 23 in Poems A. Montgomerie (2000) I. 172 Vnhallat, peillit pallat, ryp wallat quhen þow spotches.
?1824 Rymour Club Miscellanea (1912) II. 49 To plunder and spoatch in the way of your trade.
1893 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words He's elways gan spoachin aboot.
1943 W. L. Ferguson Vignettes 75 Spotchin' for sweets i' the wrang place.
1987 B. Holton tr. S. Nai'an Men o the Mossflow iv, in Edinb. Rev. Feb. 86 ‘Here's yir siller’ says Profunditas, spoachan about for it an giean it tae him.

Derivatives

spoacher n. a poacher.
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1923 G. Watson Roxburghshire Word-bk. 288 Spoacher, a poacher.
1934 Gallovidian Ann. 11 The auld spoacher that was mairrit on her faither's sister.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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