单词 | vivers |
释义 | viversn. Chiefly Scottish. Food, provisions, victuals, eatables. Only Scottish till the 19th century; its later literary currency is probably due to its frequent occurrence in the Waverley Novels. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > [noun] meateOE eatOE foodOE fodderOE dietc1230 gista1290 victual1303 victualsa1375 preya1382 feedinga1398 pasturea1398 viancea1400 viandsc1400 livingc1405 meatingc1425 vitalyc1440 vianda1450 cates1461 vivers1536 viandry1542 viander1543 gut-matter1549 peck1567 belly-cheer1579 appast1580 manchet1583 chat1584 belly-metal1590 repasture1598 cibaries1599 belly-timber1607 belly-cheat1608 peckage1610 victuallage1622 keeping1644 vivresa1650 crib1652 prog1655 grub1659 beef1661 fooding1663 teething1673 eatablea1687 sunket1686 yam1788 chow-chow1795 keep1801 feed1818 grubbing1819 patter1824 ninyam1826 nyam1828 grubbery1831 tack1834 kai1845 mungaree1846 scoff1846 foodstuff1847 chuck1850 muckamuck1852 tuck1857 tucker1858 hash1865 nosh1873 jock1879 cake flour1881 chow1886 nosebag1888 stodge1890 food aid1900 tackle1900 munga1907 scarf1932 grubber1959 α. β. 1551 Reg. Privy Council Scotl. I. 114 The greit..derth..of all kynd of victuallis and viveris.c1600 Hist. & Life James VI (1825) 108 The store of Edinburgh victuals being daylie scant, thay directit as afore sum horsemen to scurrie the feyldis for vivers.1622 in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. i. 108 Viuers are very chepe heere and thay are dere with the enimy.1725 in W. Cramond Rec. Elgin (1903) I. 420 The prices of fyring, fewell, fish, flesh and other vivers are latelie arisen to an exorbitant hight.1756 Mrs. Calderwood's Journey in Coltness Coll. (1842) 149 Every thing of vivers is dear in Holland but vegetables.1814 W. Scott Waverley II. xviii. 285 I'll join you at three, if the vivers can tarry so long. View more context for this quotation1860 J. L. Motley Hist. Netherlands (1868) II. xiii. 164 He bitterly complained of the unwillingness of the country~people to furnish vivers, waggons, and other necessaries.1887 W. Beatty-Kingston Mus. & Manners II. 18 You shall have your beer, vivers, and tobacco cheap.figurative.1588 A. King tr. P. Canisius Cathechisme or Schort Instr. 87 This is our viuers during the pilgramedg of this transitorie lif.1536 in State Papers Henry VIII (1836) V. 43 Þa ma be portative be wattyr for carying of þar veveres and uthyres necyssares. a1578 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) I. 78 Ane armie..weill furnischit witht all kynd of weweris and munitioun. 1609 J. Skene tr. Stat. Robert I in Regiam Majestatem , 20 b He sall cume..weill furnished with siluer to bye vievers for his sustentation. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1920; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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