单词 | worricow |
释义 | worricown. Scottish. a. A scarecrow; a hobgoblin. Also transferred a person of frightful or unprepossessing appearance. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > fairy or elf > [noun] > imp, goblin, or hobgoblin thursec725 puckOE puckleOE goblina1350 hurlewaynes kin1399 Hoba1500 bogle?1507 chimera?1521 hobgoblin1530 chyppynutie?1553 bearbug1560 boggard1570 bugbear?c1570 empusa1572 puckerelc1580 puck bug1582 imp1584 urchin1584 fear-babea1586 hob-thrush1590 hodge-poker1598 lar1598 poker1598 bogle-bo1603 mormo1605 foliot1621 mormolukee1624 buggle-boo1625 pug1631 black man1656 feind1659 Tom Poker1673 duende1691 boodie?a1700 worricow1711 bolly1724 Tom Po1744 fleying1811 pooka1824 booger1827 alp1828 boll1847 bogy1857 beastie1867 boogie1880 shag boy1882 the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > sowing and planting equipment > [noun] > bird-scarer scarlec1440 scare1530 blencher1531 shail1531 fray-boggard1535 crow-keeper1562 malkinc1565 clacket1594 scarecrow1606 clap-mill1613 field keeper1620 shaw-fowl1621 bean-shatter1639 clapper1660 dudman1670 clack1678 hobidy-booby?1710 worricow1711 cherry-clapper1763 flay-crake1788 potato-bogle1815 cherry-clack1824 feather-piea1825 flay-crow1824 gally-baggar1825 gally-crow1825 bogle1830 tatie-bogle1838 shewel1888 scare-string1889 the mind > attention and judgement > lack of beauty > [noun] > grotesqueness > person mammet1461 scarecrow1590 antic1597 fright1751 figure1774 jigger1825 guy1836 flibbertigibbet1878 worricow1894 α. β. 1757 T. Smollett Reprisal ii. i It canna be our commander Monsieur de Champignon, running about in the dark like a worricow.1789 D. Davidson Thoughts Seasons 122 The worrycow gid sic a yell.1809 T. Donaldson Poems 37 Where harpie, imp, an' warricoe, An' goblins dwell.1816 W. Scott Black Dwarf ii, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. I. 51 They do say there's a sort o' worricows and lang-nebbed things about the land.1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian iii, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. III. 69 It..keeps unceevil folk frae staring as if ane were a worrycow.1711 A. Ramsay Elegy Maggy Johnstoun xi I hirsl'd up my dizzy Pow, Frae 'mang the Corn like Wirricow. 1728 A. Ramsay Poems II. 185 Much hated Gowk, tho' vers'd in kittle Rules, To be a Wirry-kow to writing Fools. 1818 G. Beattie John o' Arnha' (ed. 2) 41 Or yet wi' wirriekows to mingle, That brinstane belsh. 1894 S. R. Crockett Raiders vi. 67 That's Yawkins and his crew..the ill-contriving wirricows. b. with the = the Devil. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > a devil > the Devil or Satan > [noun] devileOE Beelzebubc950 the foul ghosteOE SatanOE warlockOE SatanasOE worsea1200 unwinea1225 wondc1250 quedea1275 pucka1300 serpenta1300 dragon1340 shrew1362 Apollyon1382 the god of this worldc1384 Mahoundc1400 leviathan1412 worsta1425 old enemyc1449 Ruffin1567 dismal1570 Plotcocka1578 the Wicked One1582 goodman1603 Mahu1603 foul thief1609 somebody1609 legiona1616 Lord of Flies1622 walliman1629 shaitan1638 Old Nicka1643 Nick1647 unsel?1675 old gentleman1681 old boy1692 the gentleman in black1693 deuce1694 Black Spy1699 the vicious one1713 worricow1719 Old Roger1725 Lord of the Flies1727 Simmie1728 Old Scratch1734 Old Harry1777 Old Poker1784 Auld Hornie1786 old (auld), ill thief1789 old one1790 little-good1821 Tom Walker1833 bogy1840 diabolarch1845 Old Ned1859 iniquity1899 1719 W. Hamilton Epist. to Ramsay iii. xiii May thou..thro' thy creed, Be keeped frae the wirricow, After thou's dead. a1774 R. Fergusson Poems (1785) 163 Auld warld tale..O' Warlocks loupina round the Wirrikow. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1711 |
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