| 释义 |
zad Obs. exc. dial.
Variant of zed, name of the letter Z; hence (slang) applied to a thing or person of crooked form. (Cf. zard.)
1669Holder Elem. Speech 140 We may imagine it to have been anciently pronounced, as it is now by the Italians, Ds or Ts; and so to be called Zad from the Hebrew Tsadi: but yet..we..do as often call it Yzard. 1725New Cant. Dict. s.v., A meer Zad, used of any bandy-legg'd, crouch-back'd ..Person. 1728De Foe Street Robb. Consid. 35 Zad, crooked. 1778N. B. Halhed Gram. Bengal Lang. 6 W is defined from its form only, not from its use; and Z zad, or izard is an appellation equally useless. 1810Crabbe Borough xviii. 30 And how she soothed me, when, with study sad, I labour'd on to reach the final Zad. 1877Reports Provinc. (E.D.D.) Labouring man said at a night school, ‘I can't made a zad.’ |