单词 | stye |
释义 | styen. An inflammatory swelling on the eyelid. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > [noun] > sty styanc1000 grandoa1400 styanyc1440 west1569 styea1625 chalazion1708 stithe1789 wisp1789 hordeolum1806 quat1876 meibomian cyst1895 a1625 J. Fletcher Mad Lover v. iv, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. D2v/2 Foole. I have a Sty here Chilax. Chi. I have no gold to cure it. 1671 S. Skinner & T. Henshaw Etymologicon Linguæ Anglicanæ A Sty, (i.e.) Tumor Palpebræ Phlegmonodes. 1712 J. Browne tr. P. Pomet et al. Compl. Hist. Druggs I. 191 It cures the Sty in the Eye-Lids. 1823 E. Moor Suffolk Words 408 Sty—or Styney, a troublesome little excresence or pimple on the eye-lid. 1834 F. Marryat Jacob Faithful II. xvi. 275 I hope your lordship's sty is better in your lordship's eye. 1902 W. W. Jacobs At Sunwich Port v. 44 You've got a sty coming on your eye. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online June 2022). styeint. Scottish and northern. Chiefly in to say (or know) neither buff nor stye: see buff int. b. ΚΠ ?a1750 Jacobite Relics I. 80 (Jam.) Who knew not what was right or wrong, And neither buff nor sty, sir. 1823 J. Galt Entail II. xv. 140 He was clean dementit at that time,..he would neither buff nor stye for father nor mother, friend nor foe. 1824 W. Scott Redgauntlet II. xii. 274 ‘What say you to that?’..‘I say neither buff nor stye to it’. 1884 ‘J. Strathesk’ More Bits from Blinkbonny i. 5 Ye can neither make buff nor stye o' them. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.a1625int.?a1750 |
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