| 释义 |
little-good
1. Sc. The devil.
1821Galt Ann. Parish xlix. 384 All this running here and riding there as if the littlegude was at his heels. 1822― Entail II. 284 The mim maidens now-a-days hae delivered themselves up to the Little-gude in the shape and glamour o' novelles and Thomson's Seasons.
2. dial. The sun-spurge, Euphorbia Helioscopia. Also the sour dock, Rumex acetosa.
1808–80in Jamieson. 1831W. Patrick Plants Lanark. 210 Sun Spurge, Euphorbia Helioscopia... Called Devil's Kirnstaff and Little-good. 1876Hardwicke's Science Gossip 39 Rumex acetosa gets [the name of] ‘little guid’. |