单词 | well-put-on |
释义 | > as lemmaswell-put-on a. Scottish and English regional (northern). Of a person: clothed or dressed. Usually with prefixed adverb, as ill-put-on, well-put-on, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [adjective] boundc1175 clothedc1220 bitighta1250 i-boenc1275 yclothed1297 ydight1297 clada1300 bitoughtc1314 ycladc1330 attireda1375 yhabited1377 gleda1450 buskedc1450 vested (also vest) and seized1464 besee?a1513 yschrowd1513 vestured1523 arrayed1525 braldc1571 garbed1599 habilimented1607 riggeda1640 dressed1641 put-ona1784 habited1807 swathed1815 draped1833 turned-out1833 caparisoned1841 enclad1863 a1784 A. Ross Sc. Wks. (1938) 29 'Tis true her head had been made up fu' sleek The tither day, an' well put on her keek. 1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering III. xi. 210 I'm no just that weel put on. 1858 R. S. Surtees Ask Mamma lxviii. 396 A sleek-headed, well-put-on, groomish-looking man. 1895 ‘S. Tytler’ Kincaid's Widow iv His hand offered in marriage and rejected by that ugly, ill-put-on halflin' of a cousin! 1904 ‘H. Foulis’ Erchie x. 64 ‘They're awfu' bien-lookin' and weel put on,’ says he. ‘Oh ay!’ they tells him, ‘that's their Sunday claes.’ 1962 ‘H. MacDiarmid’ Compl. Poems (1994) II. 1066 A' I ken is weel-fed and weel-put-on though they be Ninety per cent o' respectable folk never hae As muckle life in their creeshy carcases frae beginnin' to end As kythed in that wild auld carline that day! 1985 A. Blair Tea at Miss Cranston's ii. 13 Well-put-on wee lads in decent sturdy wool with polished boots and braw-knit stockings. < as lemmas |
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