| 释义 |
▪ I. kest, v.|kɛst|
Dial. var. of cast v. esp. in senses ‘cast aside, throw away’ and (fig.) ‘do down, outdo’.
1590Spenser Faerie Queene i. xi. 163 That infernall Monster, hauing kest His wearie foe into that liuing well. 1862C. C. Robinson Dial. Leeds 334 A man who has been abroad in bad weather, ill-clad, says,—‘Ah sal nivver kest what I've gotten to neet I knawah.’ 1892J. Wright Gram. Dial. of Windhill, W. Riding iii. 29 In the following words we have e which in many of the examples is no doubt the i-umlaut of a:..kest (ME. kesten) to cast. 1893–4R. O. Heslop Northumb. Words II. i. 421 He kest his claes ower syun an' gat caad. 1913D. H. Lawrence Sons & Lovers ii. vii. 164 At seven o'clock the family heard him buy threepennyworth of hot-cross buns... He turned away several boys who came with more buns, telling them they had been ‘kested’ by a little lass. Ibid. viii. 200 Just then Wesson entered... ‘I see you've kested me,’ he said, smiling rather vapidly. ‘Yes,’ replied Barker.
▪ II. kest, -e
obs. ff. cast n. and v.; obs. pa.t. of kiss v. |