| 释义 |
▪ I. groose, v. Sc. and north.|gruːz|
Also 7 growze, 9 grooze, gruze.
[app. a derivative of grue v.]
intr. To shiver, shudder.
1674–91Ray N.C. Words (E.D.S.), Growze, to be chill before the beginning of an ague-fit. 1806Scott Lett. I. 63–4 This story makes me grouze whenever I think of it.
Hence ˈgroosing vbl. n., groose n., shivering, a shivering fit.
1825–80Jamieson, Gruzin, Groozin, a shivering. 1825Scott Fam. Lett. 25 Aug. (1894) II. 345, I own one felt a little gruse at a pass called Shanes Inn..where they cut an unfortunate Inspector of the Mail-Coaches..to pieces with scythes. 1861R. Christison Let. in Life (1886) II. xvi. 420 The consequence was horrid groozing with goose⁓skin, enduring for two hours. 1862J. Brown Rab & his friends 27 My patient had a sudden and long shivering, a ‘groosin'’, as she called it.
▪ II. groose
obs. form of gross. |