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单词 worricow
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worricown.

Brit. /ˈwʌrᵻkaʊ/, U.S. /ˈwərəˌkaʊ/, Scottish English /ˈwʌrᵻkʌʊ/
Forms: α. 1700s wirrycow, wirrykow, 1700s–1800s wirricow, wirrikow. β. 1700s–1800s worrycow, worricow (1800s worriecow, warricoe).
Etymology: < worry v. +cow n.3 (as if ‘a goblin apt to worry’).
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.
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.
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.
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).
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