单词 | zad |
释义 | zadn. Obsolete exc. dialect. Name of the letter Z; hence (slang) applied to a thing or person of crooked form. (Cf. zard at izzard n. Forms.) ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > written character > name of written character > [noun] > Z zedc1175 zee1580 izzard1597 zad1669 the world > health and disease > ill health > deformity > [noun] > person misshapec1400 counterfeit1557 hodmandod1664 zad1725 freak of nature1847 wingy1880 1669 W. Holder Elem. Speech 140 We may imagine it to have been anciently pronounced, as it is now by the Italians, Ds or Ts; and so to be called Zad from the Hebrew Tsadi: but yet..we..do as often call it Yzard. 1725 New Canting Dict. (at cited word) A meer Zad, used of any bandy-legg'd, crouch-back'd ..Person. 1728 Street-robberies, Consider'd 35 Zad, crooked. 1778 N. B. Halhed Gram. Bengal Lang. 6 W is defined from its form only, not from its use; and Z zad, or izard is an appellation equally useless. 1810 G. Crabbe Borough xviii. 238 And how she sooth'd me, when with Study sad I labour'd on to reach the final Zad. 1877 Rep. & Trans. Devonshire Assoc. 9 141 A labouring man..said..at a night school, ‘I can't made a Zad.’ This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < n.1669 |
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