| 释义 |
▪ I. wheen, a. and n. Sc. and north. dial.|hwiːn|
Forms: 4–5 quheine, qwheyn(e, 4–6 quheyn(e, -en(e, (5 qwhayne, 7 whein, wheene, 9 whean), 7–9 whin, 7– wheen.
[Represents OE. hwéne (hwœ́ne, hwǽne) in some degree, somewhat, instrumental case of hwón whon = (a) few, the meanings of which it took over in ME.]
1. Few, not many.
1375Barbour Bruce ii. 244 Thocht thai war qwheyn, thai war worthy. Ibid. xi. 605 Quhenar be full fer war thai Than thair fayis. c1400Sc. Trojan War (Horstm.) ii. 2283 Þe quheyne folk þat ware Liffand. 1513Douglas æneis i. iii. 43 On the huge deip quhen salaris did appear. 1557Extr. Aberd. Reg. (1844) I. 303 Within thir quheyne last immediat yeiris. 1894Northumbld. Gloss. s.v., Aa hevn't seen him these wheen days.
absol.c1375Sc. Leg. Saints xl. (Ninian) 921 Þe best part of þaim ves slane, &..quheine eschapit. c1425Wyntoun Cron. iv. vii. 740 Qwhayne had toyme þar aynde to draw. 1500–20Dunbar Poems xiv. 14 So quhene the Psalme and Testament to reid Within this land was nevir hard nor sene.
2. a wheen (of), a few: in recent use = a ‘good few’, a fair number.
1375Barbour Bruce viii. 368 The king..With a quheyn [Edin. MS. quhone] lik poueralȝe, Vencust him vith a gret menȝe. 1513Douglas æneis iii. vi. 45 Of mony wordis, schortlie, a quhene sall I Declair. 1680in Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scot. XLV. 237 A wheen of..canny wise professors. Ibid. 241 A whin knaves. 1682Peden Lord's Trumpet 20 O sirs! Christ had a whein noble worthies in Scotland. 1814Scott Wav. lxv, What use has my father for a whin bits o' scarted paper? 1816― Antiq. xxiv, There will be a wheen idle gowks coming to glower at the hole as lang as it is day⁓light. 1886Stevenson Kidnapped iii. 23, I wouldnae like the Balfours to be humbled before a wheen Hieland Campbells. 1901G. Douglas Ho. w. Gr. Shutters 71 ‘Have the carriers a big load?’ ‘Andy has just a wheen parcels, but Elshie's as fu' as he can haud.’
3. a wheen as advb. phr.: A little, somewhat.
1869C. Gibbon Robin Gray x, The auld wife's a wheen better.
▪ II. wheen(e
obs. or dial. ff. queen n.
1340Hampole Pr. Consc. v. 4463 Þe qwene [MS. Bowes 136 wheene] of Amazons.
▪ III. wheen, wheenerd, wheenge
see whine, winnard, whinge. |