| 释义 |
drouk, drook, v. Sc. and north. dial.|druk|
Also (6 drokke), 9 drowk.
[Origin uncertain: cf. ON. drukna to be drowned, drukkit drunk, and drunk v.]
trans. To drench (as with heavy rain). Hence drouked, Sc. droukit, ppl. a.
1513Douglas æneis x. vi. 44 Bot finaly, all droukit and forwrocht, Thai salffit war, and warpit to the cost. 1619Z. Boyd Last Battell (1629) 302 (Jam.) Heare how the drouked man [Jonah] sang at last. a1774Fergusson Cauler Oysters Poems (1845) 7 If ye hae catch'd a droukit skin. a1796Burns Weary Pund o' Tow ii, And aye she took the tither souk To drouk the stowrie tow. 1823Galt Entail I. i. 9 Foul would hae been the gait, and drooking the shower. c1836R. Dick in Smiles Life (1878) 64 With the mist swooping about you and drooking your whiskers and eyebrows. 1868Atkinson Cleveland Gloss., Drouk, to drench. 1869C. Gibbon R. Gray iv, Men and cattle were ‘drookit’ and uncomfortable. |