| 释义 |
jower, v. dial. and local U.S.|dʒaʊə(r)|
Also jour, jowr.
[? Onomatopœic.]
intr. a. To growl; to scold; to mutter or grumble in an undertone. b. To use a boorish dialect with a growling sound. Hence ˈjowering vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1628R. Hayman Quodlibets ii. 37 You may our cursings, swearing, iouring mend. 1724–42De Foe Tour Gt. Brit. (ed. 3) I. 303 As this Way of boorish Speech is in Ireland called the Brogue upon the Tongue, so here 'tis named Jouring... The Difference is not so much in the Orthography, as in the Tone and Accent; their abridging the Speech, Cham, for I am; Chill, for I will..and the like. 1746Exmoor Scolding 26 (E.D.S.) Ya purting, tatchy, stertling, jowering, prinking, mincing Theng. 1821Scott Kenilw. xx, [She] answered his petition..with a volley of vituperation, couched in what is there called the jowring dialect. 1879G. F. Jackson Shropsh. Word-bk., Jour, obsols., to mutter, or grumble in an undertone; generally used in the participial form—jouring. 1883C. F. Smith Southernisms in Trans. Amer. Philol. Soc. 50 Jower or jour, quite common in the South in the sense of persistent quarrelling or scolding. 1888Elworthy W. Som. Word-bk., Jowering, growling, grumbling. |