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单词 swats
释义 swats, n. pl. Sc.|swɒts|
Also 6 swaits, swaittis, 9 swatts.
[repr. OE. swatan ‘cervisia’, beer.]
New small beer or ale; also see quot. 1888.
1508Dunbar Flyting 130 Sueir swappit swanky, swyne⁓keper ay for swaittis.1572Satir. Poems Reform. xxxiii. 261 Now drink thay Mylk and Swaits in steid of Aill.a1682Sempill Blythesome Wedding 69 There will be..swats, and scraped paunches.1717Ramsay Elegy on Lucky Wood vi, She ne'er..kept dow'd tip within her waws, But reaming swats.1791Burns Tam o' Shanter 40 Reaming swats, that drank divinely.1871C. Gibbon Lack of Gold xxx, However, he took a draught of swats (small ale).1888Edmonston & Saxby Home Naturalist 209 Swatts is the water that covers sowens, and is used to thin the sowens, or as a drink.
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