| 单词 | to go souling |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto go souling (also a-souling) 3. intransitive. English regional (chiefly northern and western). To go about asking for donations of food, etc., traditionally on the eve of All Souls' Day. Chiefly in to go souling (also a-souling). Now rare (historical in later use). Cf. souling n. 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > poverty > mendicancy > beg or be beggar [verb (intransitive)] > on specific traditional occasions soul1778 valentine1854 society > leisure > social event > festive occasion > specific festivities > [verb (intransitive)] > others soul1778 valentine1854 to play mas'1965 1778 G. Tollet in S. Johnson & G. Steevens Plays of Shakspeare (rev. ed.) I. 142 Is it worth remarking, that on All-Saints-Day the poor people in Staffordshire, and perhaps in other country places, go from parish to parish a souling as they call it. 1820 R. Wilbraham Attempt Gloss. Cheshire at Souling To go a souling, is to go about as boys do, repeating certain rigmarole verses, and begging cakes or money, in commutation for them, the Eve of All Souls' Day. 1883 C. S. Burne Shropshire Folk-lore 381 Up to the present time in many places, poor children, and sometimes men, go out ‘souling’. a1895 J. Arlosh MS Coll. Dial. Words in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1903) V. 630/1 All that we are soling for Is apples and good cheer. 1903 E. K. Chambers Mediæval Stage I. ii. xi. 253 Thus children and the poor go ‘souling’ for apples and ‘soul-cakes’ on All Souls' day. 2009 J. Struthers Red Sky at Night 214 On All Souls' Day, special spiced cakes..were..given to poor people who would come ‘souling’ in remembrance of those who had died. < as lemmas |
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