单词 | briery |
释义 | † brierybriaryn. Obsolete. A place overgrown with briers. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > land with vegetation > [noun] > specific plants briery1552 mushroom earth1731 tule1837 native bush1853 thornveld1878 fellfield1909 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Bryary or place where bryars growe. 1585 in Academy (1882) 25 Mar. Fifty acres of turbary, sixty acres of scrub and briery. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online June 2018). brierybriaryadj. 1. Full of or consisting of thorns or briers; brambly, thorny. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > thorn-tree or -bush > brier or wild rose-bush > [adjective] > full of briery1549 briereda1554 sweet-briary1828 1549 Coverdale et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. II. Jas. i. f. xxviii It taketh no rote in a briery place. 1581 J. Studley tr. Seneca Hippolytus ii, in T. Newton et al. tr. Seneca 10 Trag. f. 64 Up and downe the breary Brakes. 1623 Sir J. Beaumont Transfigur. in E. Farr Sel. Poetry Reign James I (1848) 144 By steepe and briery paths ye must ascend. 1747 S. Richardson Clarissa I. xxxi. 200 Over briery inclosures. 1846 J. Keble Lyra Innocentium 254 Dews..glistening clear, Through their brown or briary screen. 1876 R. D. Blackmore Cripps ii. 11 A briary thicket. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > thorn-tree or -bush > brier or wild rose-bush > [adjective] briery1593 1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares f. 15v Her possessors neuer escape briery scratches. 3. fig. Of the nature of briers; vexing. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > state of annoyance or vexation > [adjective] > annoying or vexatious angeeOE swinkfuleOE plightlyOE teenfulOE contrariousc1320 drefa1325 troublinga1325 despitousa1340 thornya1340 discomfortablec1350 troublablec1374 noyousa1382 noyfulc1384 diseasy1387 angrya1393 painful1395 hackinga1400 annoying?c1400 annoyousc1400 cumbrousc1400 teenc1400 annoyfulc1405 sputousc1420 diseasefula1425 molest?a1425 noying?a1425 noisomea1450 grievingc1450 tedious?1454 troublous1463 noisantc1475 displeasant1481 strouble1488 nuisant1494 noyanta1500 irksome1513 sturting1513 molestious1524 vexatious1534 cumbersome1535 uncommodious1541 spiteful1548 vexing?1548 incommodious1551 molestous1555 diseasing1558 grating1563 pestilent1565 sturtsome1570 molestuousa1572 troublesome1573 murrain1575 discommodable1579 galling1583 spiny1586 unsupportable1586 troubleful1588 plaguey1594 distressingc1595 molestful1596 molesting1598 vexful1598 fretful1603 briery1604 bemadding1608 mortifying1611 tiry1611 distressfula1616 irking1629 angersome1649 disobliging1652 discomforting1654 incomfortable1655 incommode1672 ruffling1680 unconvenient1683 pestifying1716 trying1718 offending1726 bothering1765 pesky1775 weary1785 sturty1788 unaccommodating1790 tiresome1798 werriting1808 bothersome1817 plaguesome1828 pestilential1833 fretsome1834 languorous1834 pesty1834 pestersome1843 nettlesome1845 miserable1850 niggling1854 distempering1855 be-maddeninga1861 nattery1873 nagging1883 pestiferous1890 trouble-giving1893 maddening1896 molestive1905 nuisancy1906 balls-aching?1912 nuisance1922 nattering1949 noodgy1969 dickheaded1991 dickish1991 cockish1996 1604 T. Wright Passions of Minde (new ed.) i. iii. 11 Those spinie braunches of briarie passions. 1648 Earl of Westmorland Otia Sacra (1879) 41 Choak'd with the Brierie Cares of this world. 1876 G. Bancroft Hist. U.S. II. xxiii. 84 To go forth into the briery and brambly world. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < n.1552adj.1549 |
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