单词 | addling |
释义 | addlingn.1ΘΚΠ society > morality > dueness or propriety > [noun] > deserving (good or ill) worthnesseOE addlingc1175 ofservingc1225 desert1297 ofgoing1340 deserving1388 merita1393 worthiness1395 deservice1480 just desert1548 deservednessa1628 fitness1648 society > morality > dueness or propriety > [noun] > deserving (good or ill) > that which is deserved i-wurhtc888 addlingc1175 wrightc1175 meritc1230 desert1393 demerit1399 condignity1653 comeuppance1859 c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 17705 Þu best ta demmd To dreȝhenn helle pine. All affterr þatt tin addlinng iss. Na lasse. ne na mare. R. Misyn tr. R. Rolle Fire of Love 14 (MED) Of þare addillynge it is also þat þai vtward with playne argumentis gaynstandys þe treuth. ?c1475 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 15562) f. 1 Adyllyng, meritum, gracia. 1593 G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation sig. Ff2 According to Chawcers English, there can be little adling, without much gabbing. 2. concrete. Money that a person acquires by working, etc.; earnings. English regional (chiefly north-eastern). ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > payment for labour or service > [noun] hirec1000 shipec1000 shipingc1275 servicec1300 soldc1330 wage1338 payment1370 reward1371 pay?a1400 mercedec1400 remunerationc1400 souldie1474 emolument1480 soldery1502 stipend?1518 entertainment1535 task-money1593 consideration1607 gratuitya1637 wadage1679 addling1757 solde1852 treatment1852 screw1853 time1877 money1887 wage payment1923 1757 Muse in Moral Humour 72 He for Tythes ill-paid, gets better Land, While I am ev'ry Way o'th' losing Hand: My Adlings war'd, and yet my Rent to pay. 1849 G. C. Greenwell Gloss. Terms Coal Trade Northumberland & Durham 3 Addlings, Adlings, earnings. 1852 New Monthly Mag. Jan. 60 He had contrived to win a very decent sum..when a gendarme..quietly collared him and dragged him off to the Polizei..and his ‘addlings’ [were] employed for the good of the state. 1855 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Yorks. Words 2 Addlings, wages. ‘Poor addlings’, small pay for work. ‘Hard addlings’, money laboriously acquired. 1928 A. E. Pease Dict. Dial. N. Riding Yorks. 1/2 Addlings, addlins, earnings, wages. 1995 J. M. Sims-Kimbrey Wodds & Doggerybaw: Lincs. Dial. Dict. 4/2 Addlins,... ‘Whatcher addlins now then, boy?’ 2007 D. Oldroyd Estates, Enterprise & Investm. at Dawn of Industr. Revol. iii. 85 The situation of the wagonmen, who led the coal, was similar. Written agreements bound them to particular owners, and accounts were used to record their adlings (wagon pay). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2021). addlingn.2 The action, process, or fact of addle v.2 (in various senses). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > confused or altered mental state vertigo1635 addling1798 mixed-upness1927 altered state1938 tiswas1960 1640 J. Carter Vindiciæ Decimarum 46 The Apostle..innovates nothing at all; with a new egge of his owne addling hee does not present the Corinthians: but the old practise upon former precept to be continued that it is ordain'd this he preacheth. 1798 W. Watkins Anomaliae 23 Jan. 107 Could he invent a merry tale By addling of his brains with ale. 1843 E. A. Poe Purloined Let. in Gift 1845 55 An unaccountable addling of the brains. 1870 Amer. Naturalist 3 602 Destruction of numberless nests, addling of eggs, and drowning of newly-hatched young, are foregone conclusions from every unusual rise of the tide. 1916 Times 15 Aug. 11/4 No one here limits the action of the guns to the addling of a few hen's eggs. 1975 Hist. Jrnl. 18 860 Anxious to avoid a repetition of the addling of 1614's parliament, James in his election proclamation of 1620 warned the voters against ‘discontented persons’ and ‘wrangling lawyers’. 2008 Star-Ledger (Newark, New Jersey) (Nexis) 15 July 26 Addling is essential to keeping numbers down, and harassment is a viable tool to chase geese from lands where you don't want the birds to be. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1c1175n.21640 |
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