| 释义 |
▪ I. yauld, yald, a. Sc. and north. dial.|jɔːld|
Also 8 yawl, 9 yaul.
[Origin unknown.]
Active, sprightly, nimble; strong, vigorous.
1786Har'st Rig viii, A bang O' Highlanders, a fendy rout, Baith yawl and strang. 1787Burns Let. to W. Nicol 1 June, She's a yauld, poutherie Girran. 1816Scott Antiq. xliv, There's mony yauld chiels amang thae volunteers. 1873D. Maclagan Heather iii. in Mod. Scott. Poets Ser. iii. (1881) 177 Though somethin' auld An' no sae yauld.
▪ II. yauld, yaulew, yaulpe, yaumer, -our
varr. yield, yellow, yawp, yammer. |