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单词 torfle
释义

torflev.

/ˈtɔːf(ə)l/
Forms: Also 1600s–1800s -fell, 1800s -fil.
Etymology: Origin unascertained. Compare torple v.
dialect.
intransitive. To founder, go lame (? obsolete); to decline in health, pine away, languish; figurative to lose interest in or draw back from an undertaking. Hogg's use of the word is vague.
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1575–6 in J. Raine Depositions Courts Durham (1845) 285 This deponent..had an ox that torfled.
1818 J. Hogg Brownie of Bodsbeck II. 149 It was reportit, that there was to be seen every morning at two a clock, a naked woman torfelling on the Alemoor loch, wi' her hands tied behind her back, and a heavy stane at her neck.
1820 J. Hogg Bridal of Polmood viii I..fleechyt Eleesabett noore to let us torfell in the waretyme of owir raik [in the springtime of our life's journey].
1825 J. Hogg Queen Hynde i. 439 She saw him swathed in bloody red, And torfell'd on the monster's head.
1876 C. C. Robinson Gloss. Words Dial. Mid-Yorks. Torple,..Turple,..Torfle,..or Turfle, v.n., to die. The term is only used in connection with animals.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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