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单词 wallydraigle
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wallydraiglen.

Brit. /ˈwalɪdreɪɡl/, U.S. /ˈwɑliˌdreɪɡ(ə)l/, Scottish English /ˈwalɪdreɡl/
Forms:

α. (a) pre-1700 walidrag, pre-1700 wallydrag, pre-1700 1800s wallidrag, 1700s wallydreg, 1800s wailydreg, 1800s wallidreg, 1800s wallydraig; (b) north-eastern 1800s waridrag, 1900s– warridrag, 1900s– warriedrag, 1900s– warrydrag.

β. (a) 1700s wallydragle, 1700s walydraggle, 1700s–1900s wallydraggle, 1800s wallidraggle, 1800s wallietragle, 1800s walydraigle, 1800s williedragel, 1800s williedraiggle, 1800s– wallydraigle, 1900s– walliedraigil, 1900s– walliedraigle; (b) north-eastern 1700s warydraggle, 1700s–1800s warydraggel, 1800s warridraggle, 1800s worriedraggle.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: waly int., drag v.; -le suffix.
Etymology: Probably < waly int. (although this is first attested later) + drag v. In β. forms showing suffixation in -le suffix, probably further influenced by draggle v. (compare later draggle n. 2).Forms in war(r)y-, etc., show assimilation to the r of the second element.
Scottish (now rare).
1. A lazy, unkempt, or slovenly person; a good-for-nothing, a slob, a slattern.Chiefly as a mild term of abuse or contempt.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirty person > [noun]
mesela1400
scabbardc1440
slotterbugc1440
drivel1498
sow1508
wallydraigle?a1513
sloven1530
filthy1553
ketterela1572
slabberer1611
slubberdegullion1612
Grobian1621
slabberdegullion1653
slobber-chops1670
slate1718
haverel1720
slobberer1732
slummock1760
fleabag1805
slush1825
slob1876
trashbag1887
crumb1918
garbage can1925
hog1932
crud1940
sordid1959
grot1970
the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > sloth or laziness > [noun] > lazy person
caynard1303
sluggard1398
luskc1420
slugc1425
truantc1449
dawa1500
hummel?a1513
rook?a1513
wallydraigle?a1513
sloven1523
dronea1529
draw latch1538
slim1548
slouk1570
do-nothing1579
bumbiea1585
do-little1586
lazybones1593
luskin1593
do-naught1594
loiter-sack1594
bed-presser1598
lazy lizard1600
lazy-back1611
fainéant1618
nothing-do1623
trivant1624
slothful1648
lolpoop1661
tool1699
haggis1822
lazy-boots1832
lazy-legs1838
poke1847
never-sweat1851
slob1876
bum1882
haggis bag1892
lollop1896
trouble-shirker1908
warb1933
fuck-off1948
poop-butt1967
the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > one who is unimportant > worthless
chaffc1386
noughta1400
noughtinga1500
trifle?a1500
undought1508
wallydraigle?a1513
jackstraw1565
oatmeal-groat1594
trasha1616
Jack-of-strawa1625
little worth1823
wanworth1832
shicer1846
nowt1847
no good1871
two-spot1885
cannon fodder1917
crumb1918
no-gooder1936
nogoodnik1936
schmatte1967
a1513 W. Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen in Poems (1998) I. 43 I haue ane wallidrag, ane worme, ane auld wobat carle, A waistit wolroun, na worth bot wourdis to clatter.
1568 (a1508) W. Kennedy Flyting (Bannatyne) in Poems W. Dunbar (1998) I. 201 Waik walidrag and werlot of the cairtis.
1790 J. Fisher Poems Var. Subj. 83 He has na seen the wally dreg Sin in her wame it bouted.
1817 W. Scott Rob Roy III. vii. 188 That canna be said o' king's soldiers, if they let themselves be beaten wi' a wheen auld carles that are past fighting,..and wives wi' their rocks and distaffs, the very wally-dragles o' the countryside.
1846 Drummond's Muckomachy 45 Thus did that willie-dragel Dick Pay for his slowness buttock-mail.
1955 W. P. Milne Eppie Elrick xxiv. 221 A mengie o' warrydrags as pae-wae an' hingin-luggit like's 'imsel.
2000 M. Fitt But n Ben A-go-go xi. 88 The shilpit an the seik chittered unner drookit blankets while wallydraigles o laddies guddled bairnishly in the sheuchs.
2.
a. A weak, sickly, puny, or undersized person or animal.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > sick person > [noun] > weak person
dwininga1400
molla1425
impotenta1513
gristlea1556
weakling1576
puler1579
puling1579
shadow1588
shotten herring1598
doddle1681
sickrel1699
seven-months1724
wandought1726
wallydraigle1736
wreck1795
werewolf1808
windlestraw1818
weed1825
shammock1828
sickling1834
forcible feeble1844
dwindle1847
weedling1849
crock1876
feebling1887
asthenic1893
dodderer1907
pencil-neck1956
burnt-out case1959
weakie1959
the world > animals > animal body > [noun] > unhealthy animal > weak or thin
rascal1530
wallydraigle1736
spindling1851
slink1863
the world > life > the body > bodily height > shortness > [noun] > person
dwarfeOE
congeonc1230
go-by-ground?a1300
smalla1300
shrimpc1386
griga1400
gruba1400
murche1440
nirvil1440
mitinga1450
witherling1528
wretchocka1529
elf1530
hop-o'-my-thumb1530
pygmy1533
little person1538
manikin1540
mankin1552
dandiprat1556
yrle1568
grundy1570
Jack Sprat1570
squall1570
manling1573
Tom Thumb1579
pinka1585
squib1586
screaling1594
giant-dwarf1598
twattle1598
agate1600
minimus1600
cock sparrow1602
dapperling1611
modicum1611
scrub1611
sesquipedalian1615
dwarflinga1618
wretchcock1641
homuncio1643
whip-handle1653
homuncule1656
whippersnapper1674
chitterling1675
sprite1684
carliea1689
urling1691
wirling1691
dwarf man1699
poppet1699
durgan1706
short-arse1706
tomtit1706
Lilliputian1726
wallydraigle1736
midge1757
minikin1761
squeeze-crab1785
minimum1796
niff-naff1808
titman1818
teetotum1822
squita1825
cradden1825
nyaff1825
weed1825
pinkeen1850
fingerling1864
Lilliput1867
thumbling1867
midget1869
inch1884
shorty1888
titch1888
skimpling1890
stub1890
scrap1898
pygmoid1922
lofty1933
peewee1935
smidgen1952
pint-size1954
pint-sized1973
munchkin1974
1736 A. Ramsay in Scots Mag. (1784) Aug. 397 No walydraggle among them all fine girls.
1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian vi, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. II. 161 We think mair about the warst wally-draigle in our ain byre, than about the blessing which the angel of the covenant gave to the Patriarch.
1930 Scots Mag. Feb. 378 Yon puir wallydraigle as wabbly's a reed, Her purse maun be toom.
1992 D. Purves Shakespeare's Tragedie o Macbeth v. iii. 58 Awa wi ye, fauss thanes, an mell wi Inglish wallie-draigils, for aw the guid it dis ye!
b. The weakest, smallest, or youngest bird in a nest. Also: a person who is considered the weakest or youngest member of a family, group, etc.; the runt, the baby.
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the world > animals > birds > young bird > [noun] > last hatched or weakest
wretchocka1529
nest-cockle1567
nestle-cock1582
wretchcock1641
wallydraigle1770
nestle-chick1932
1770 Ld. Hailes Anc. Sc. Poems 238 Wally-dragle is a word still used for the weakest bird in the nest, or the weakest chicken in the flock.
1788 Scots Mag. Nov. 558 We're a' like birds hatched in ae nest... By weakness o' my pipe confess'd I'm wally-draggle.
1826 J. Galt Last of Lairds xxxvii. 337 It's just like the cuckoo dabbing a wallydraigle out o' the nest.
1886 J. Meikle Lintie 9 Four o' the birds cam' oot a' richt, I dug the twa willie-draiggles that mother has in her breist the noo oot o' the shells.
1916 E. M. Lloyd Tom Anderson Dare-devil i. 6 Would she refuse her consent? ‘They all think the “wallydraigle” is bound to stick to the nest,’ he said.
1975 J. Y. Mather & H. H. Speitel Ling. Atlas Scotl. I. 280 The youngest of a brood, [Renfrew, Dumfries] wallie draigle.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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