† cardowern.

Forms: 1700s–1800s curdower, 1700s–1900s cardower, 1800s cardooer, 1900s curdooer.

Origin: Probably formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: car adj., doer n.

Etymology: Probably < car adj. + doer n. (compare forms at that entry).Compare the following, which are attested rarely in Scots in related senses: cardow, noun (1795 in an uncertain sense: perhaps ‘tradesperson or tailor who works illegally, clumsy workman’; also in forms cardoo, courdow), cardow (verb) to mend old clothes, patch, botch (1825 in Jamieson; also in forms cardoo, curdow, curdoo), cardowing, noun (a1800).

Scottish. Obsolete.

1. A tradesperson who illegally works in a burgh of which he or she is not a freeman or freewoman.

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1758 H. Dalrymples Information for Hairdressers in Edinb. 19 The Question between the Barbers of Edinburgh and Barbers of Canongate. Unfreemen of Edinburgh, or Curdowers.

1800 in Incorporation Wrights in Glasgow (1880) 29 Expense at sundry times looking after cardowers.

a. A tailor or seamstress who earns money by going from house to house mending old or worn-out clothes.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > [noun] > tailor > other tailors

merchant tailor1533

cardower1825

springer-up1851

whip-the-cat1851

Jew1916

1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. at Curdoo Curdower,..2. A tailor or sempstress, who goes from house to house to mend old clothes.

1837 J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Scott V. xii. 322 A little hunchbacked tailor..who occupied a cottage on Scott's farm of the Broomielees—one of the race that creep from homestead to homestead,..the great gossips and newsmen of the parish,—in Scottish nomenclature cardooers.

1911 A. Warrack Scots Dial. Dict. 73/1 Cardower, a mender of old clothes.

b. An itinerant tinker.

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society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [noun] > one who

piepowderc1436

runabout1549

peripatician1598

peripateticc1600

peregrinator1610

itinerant1641

itinerary1709

transient1877

cardower1911

1911 A. Warrack Scots Dial. Dict. Addenda 704/2 Curdooer, a travelling tinker.

1928 Aberdeen Book-lover 6 i. 13 Wi' sowderin' bolt, shears, an' fite iron belyve, He shaws that a curdooer's wark's never deen.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	cardower
释义	† cardowern. Forms: 1700s–1800s curdower, 1700s–1900s cardower, 1800s cardooer, 1900s curdooer. Origin: Probably formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: car adj., doer n. Etymology: Probably < car adj. + doer n. (compare forms at that entry).Compare the following, which are attested rarely in Scots in related senses: cardow, noun (1795 in an uncertain sense: perhaps ‘tradesperson or tailor who works illegally, clumsy workman’; also in forms cardoo, courdow), cardow (verb) to mend old clothes, patch, botch (1825 in Jamieson; also in forms cardoo, curdow, curdoo), cardowing, noun (a1800). Scottish. Obsolete. 1. A tradesperson who illegally works in a burgh of which he or she is not a freeman or freewoman. ΚΠ 1758 H. Dalrymples Information for Hairdressers in Edinb. 19 The Question between the Barbers of Edinburgh and Barbers of Canongate. Unfreemen of Edinburgh, or Curdowers. 1800 in Incorporation Wrights in Glasgow (1880) 29 Expense at sundry times looking after cardowers. 2. a. A tailor or seamstress who earns money by going from house to house mending old or worn-out clothes. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > [noun] > tailor > other tailors merchant tailor1533 cardower1825 springer-up1851 whip-the-cat1851 Jew1916 1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. at Curdoo Curdower,..2. A tailor or sempstress, who goes from house to house to mend old clothes. 1837 J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Scott V. xii. 322 A little hunchbacked tailor..who occupied a cottage on Scott's farm of the Broomielees—one of the race that creep from homestead to homestead,..the great gossips and newsmen of the parish,—in Scottish nomenclature cardooers. 1911 A. Warrack Scots Dial. Dict. 73/1 Cardower, a mender of old clothes. b. An itinerant tinker. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [noun] > one who piepowderc1436 runabout1549 peripatician1598 peripateticc1600 peregrinator1610 itinerant1641 itinerary1709 transient1877 cardower1911 1911 A. Warrack Scots Dial. Dict. Addenda 704/2 Curdooer, a travelling tinker. 1928 Aberdeen Book-lover 6 i. 13 Wi' sowderin' bolt, shears, an' fite iron belyve, He shaws that a curdooer's wark's never deen. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1758
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