单词 | wanthriven |
释义 | wanthrivenadj. Scottish (now chiefly Shetland and Orkney). Failing to thrive; stunted, wasted, sickly. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > [adjective] > in state of ill health or diseased untrumc825 sickc888 unwholec888 slackc897 unstronga900 sicklea1000 sam-halea1023 worseOE attaint1303 languishinga1325 heallessc1374 sicklyc1374 sicklewa1387 bada1393 mishalea1400 languoring?c1425 distempered1440 unwell?c1450 detent?a1475 poora1475 languorousc1475 maladif1481 illa1500 maladiousc1500 wanthriven1508 attainted1509 unsound1513 acrazed1521 cracked1527 unsoundya1529 visited1537 infirmed1552 crazed1555 healthless1568 ill-liking1572 afflicted1574 crazy1576 unhealthful1580 sickish1581 valetudinary1581 not well1587 fainty1590 ill-disposed1596 unhealthsome1598 tainted1600 ill-affected1604 peaking1611 unhealthy1611 infirmited1616 disaffected1626 physical1633 illish1637 pimping1640 invalid1642 misaffected1645 valetudinarious1648 unhale1653 badly1654 unwholesome1655 valetudinous1655 morbulent1656 off the hooksa1658 mawkish1668 morbid1668 unthriven1680 unsane1690 ailing1716 not wellish1737 underlya1742 poorly1750 indifferent1753 comical1755 maladized1790 sober1808 sickened1815 broken-down1816 peaky1821 poorlyish1827 souffrante1827 run-down1831 sicklied1835 addle1844 shaky1844 mean1845 dauncy1846 stricken1846 peakyish1853 po'ly1860 pindling1861 rough1882 rocky1883 suffering1885 wabbit1895 icky-boo1920 like death warmed up1924 icky1938 ropy1945 crappy1956 hanging1971 sick as a parrot1982 shite1987 the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by poor growth > [adjective] > stunted or underdeveloped wanthriven1508 scrubby1591 unthriven1680 nithered1691 strunty1756 stinted1759 starved1785 nirled1808 scrunty1811 scrawny1883 1508 W. Kennedy Flyting (Chepman & Myllar) in Poems W. Dunbar (1998) I. 216 Evill schryvin, wanthryvin, not clene na curius. a1585 A. Montgomerie Flyting with Polwart (Tullibardine) in Poems (2000) I. 147 Threid bair be thair thrift as thow art vanthrewin [1621 wanthreivin]. 1611 in D. Laing Var. Pieces Fugitive Sc. Poetry (1853) 2nd Ser. ii. 8 Thow art all wanthriuen. 1703 J. Clark Spiritual-merchant iii. 110 Careless Christians who take no care how affairs go betwixt God and their Souls, commonlie they are weak and wanthriven. 1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian viii, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. II. 199 And what am I but a poor wasted, wan-thriven tree? 1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. at Lingit Thin, lean, wanthriven. 1897 E. W. Hamilton Outlaws of Marches v. 54 Poor wan-thriven, lingit-looking things they are. 1979 J. J. Graham Shetland Dict. Wantrivven, in poor physical condition; stunted. 1985 M. Sweetland Eightsome Reel xxxv. 328 The snow thinned in patches and showed up the wan-thriven grass which had all but died in the four dreary months since it saw the sun. 1988 G. Lamb Orkney Wordbk. Wantrivan, ill-thriving. 2017 H. Scott in Lallans 90 69 Nor niver taen a wrangsum gait That ens i sum wanthriven state. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1508 |
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