单词 | youthhead |
释义 | youthheadn. Chiefly Scottish. 1. The state of youth, youngness: = youth n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > age > youth > [noun] > state, quality, or fact of youthhood971 youtha1100 youthheadc1220 youngnessc1350 tenderc1400 youthnessc1475 unripenessa1500 youthlikeness1549 youthfulness1587 primeve1619 juvenility1623 infantility1631 youthfullity1763 youthiness1821 underdevelopment1891 vealiness1895 c1220 Bestiary 55 Wu he neweð his ȝuðhede, hu he cumeð ut of elde. c1480 (a1400) St. Paul 862 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 53 Quhare hele beis ay but seknes, ȝouthed but eld or wrechitnes. c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 3 Till enfourme ȝour ȝouthede of mony syndry knaulagis. 1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) I. 67 Ȝouthheid is without ressoun or ryme. c1560 A. Scott Poems (S.T.S.) xvi. 50 Quha wald the rege of ȝowtheid dant. c1730 A. Ramsay Some of Contents Ever-green vi Quhen eild and spyte takis place of ȝouthheids flame. 1819 W. Scott Let. 3 Dec. (1933) VI. 42 Mamma and the girls are quite well and so is Master Charles who is of course more magnificent as being the only specimen of youthhead at home. 2. The time of youth, adolescence: = youth n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > age > youth > [noun] youthc897 youngheada1300 youngthc1330 juvent1377 juventy1377 first youtha1387 youthheada1400 joyfnesc1400 junessec1430 young daysa1464 juventudec1470 younga1475 youngness?1505 flower?1507 juventute1541 prime tide1549 spring1553 April1583 springtime1583 nonage1584 prime1584 flowering youth1586 primrose1590 greenc1595 dancing-days1599 primrose-time1606 leaping timea1616 salad daysa1616 minority1632 juvenency1656 coltagec1720 youdith1723 veal-bones1785 whelphood1847 colthood1865 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 3592 Quen þai it [sc. age] haue þai are vnfayn, And wald ha youthed þan again. c1440 Gesta Romanorum (Harl.) lxix. 317 My lord god, þat hast y-kept me fro my ȝowthede, kepe me now in þis hour. c1480 (a1400) St. Luke 3 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 246 In his ȝouthede leyrit he In antyoche leche to be. 1526 Extr. Burgh Rec. Stirling (1887) 29 He was within youitheid and of mynor aige. 1588 A. King tr. P. Canisius Cathechisme or Schort Instr. k iv All the iust men, florising in thair ȝouthheid. 1801 H. Macneill Poet. Wks. II. 134 Year after year in youtheid's prime, Wander he will, frae clime to clime. 1814 R. Southey Roderick xvii. 17 The children, free In youthhead's happy season from all cares. 1826 J. Wilson Noctes Ambrosianae xxvi, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. June 752 That never was Mr. North's character, even in lusty youth-head. 3. Youths collectively: = youth n. 5. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > young person > [noun] > young people collectively youngeOE youthc897 maidhooda1200 youngth1484 youthhead1562 frya1577 younkery1594 Jack and Jill1621 jeunesse1673 youthhood1690 juvenility1823 jeunesse dorée1828 flaming youth1923 yoof1986 1562 N. Winȝet Certain Tractates (1888) I. 23 I iugeit the teching of the ȝouthed in vertew and science, nixt efter the auctoritie with the ministeris of iustice vnder it. 1567 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1877) 1st Ser. I. 535 Privatlie or publictlie to instruct the youtheid. 1848 Tait's Edinb. Mag. 15 123 They are..guilty of having committed the education of ‘the youth~head’ of the country to men whom they consider disqualified. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1220 |
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