单词 | wissel |
释义 | wisseln. Chiefly Scottish. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > financial dealings > types of money-dealing > [noun] > money-changing > money changer's establishment wissel1482 exchange1552 bureau de change1853 1482 in H. E. Malden Cely Papers (1900) 104 The Kyng..wylle hawe iij whystylles whon at Bregys another at Callez the thyrd at London. 1498 Ledger-bk. A. Halyburton (1867) 173 Sald tham [sc. xv lycht crounis] in the Wissil off Brugis for 3 li. 6s. 5. 2. Change for an amount of money; esp. in to get the wissel of one's groat, figurative to be ‘paid out’. ΘΚΠ society > morality > dueness or propriety > [verb (intransitive)] > deserve well or ill > get one's deserts to sow the wind and reap the whirlwindc1384 to drink to one's oysters1470 to serve (a person) right1587 to get the wissel of one's groat1721 to get one's fairing1787 to get one's bitters1812 to get one's faring1846 come1896 society > trade and finance > money > sum of money > [noun] > small sum > as surplus (after payment) (and) odd money1447 change1665 wissel1808 1721 A. Ramsay Prospect of Plenty 134 Nor can we wyt them, since they had our Vote; But now they'se get the Wistle of their Groat. 1722 W. Hamilton Life of Sir William Wallace 36 Wallace quickly brought the Culzeon back, And there gave him the Whissle of his Plack. 1786 R. Burns Poems 221 I..gat the whissle o' my groat, An' pay't the fee. 1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. at Quhissel ‘Gie me my wissel’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online December 2021). wisselv. Scottish and northern. a. transitive. To exchange for something else. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > exchange > exchange, change for [verb (transitive)] changec1225 truck?c1225 interchangec1374 permutec1400 wrixlec1400 turnc1449 wissel1487 chaffer1530 niffer1540 bandy1589 to chaffer words1590 swap1590 barter1596 counterchange1598 commute1633 trade1636 countercambiate1656 ring1786 rebarter1845 trade1864 swop1890 permutate1898 interconvert1953 1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xii. 580 Mony men of gret valour With speris, macys, and with knyvis, And othir vapnys vissill [1489 Adv. wysyllyt] thair lyvis. 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid ix. iv. 92 Heyr is..A forcy spreit..Quhilk reputtis fayr to wyssill, apon sik wys Wyth this honour thou thus pretendis to wyn, This mortale stait and life that we bene in. a1585 P. Hume Flyting with Montgomerie (Tullibardine) vii. 4 in Poems A. Montgomerie (2000) I. 165 Appardoun me, poettis, to alter my styil And wissill my wers for fylling þe air. b. To exchange (words) with a person. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > conversation > converse with [verb (transitive)] to speak to ——c825 speakc950 to speak with ——971 to speak unto ——c1386 entertain1553 to stand with ——1564 wissel1571 discourse1677 dialogue1681 converse1718 1571 A. Stewart Let. 10 July in R. Bannatyne Jrnl. Trans. Scotl. (1806) 202 Thow seames in the begyning to schaw thy vnwillingnes, to wishill wordis in our querall. c1600 D. Moysie Mem. Affairs Scotl. (1830) 131 Some wordis wer wissellit at the first betuix the erle of Mar and lord Lyndsay. 1819 A. Balfour Campbell I. xviii. 332 He..sware a gryte aith, that he wad never wissle words wi' him till he changed his mind. 2. To change (money). ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > financial dealings > types of money-dealing > [verb (transitive)] > exchange changec1400 wissel1483 rechange1551 exchange1614 1483 in G. Neilson & H. Paton Acts Lords of Council Civil Causes (1918) II. Introd. p. cxxx The some of viij Henre nobles quhilk..Issabell allegit..was wissilit and changit be the said Johne and nocht laid wed. 1617 Despauterii Grammaticæ Institutionis Lib. VII (new ed.) 131 Cambio, to wissell or change money. c1700 W. Kennett MS Lansdowne 1033 lf. 432 b Wirsle, to exchange, or change, Northumb. in Wirsle me this half-crown. 1721 A. Ramsay Poems I. Gloss. Wistle, to exchange (Money). This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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