| 释义 |
mistryst, v. Sc. and north. dial.|mɪsˈtraɪst|
[mis-1 1, 7.]
1. trans. To fail to keep an engagement with. Also absol. or intr. const. with.
1816Scott Bl. Dwarf iv, Ye'll be gaun yonder, Mr. Patrick; feind o' me will mistryst you for a' my mother says. 1893Stevenson Catriona xiii, ‘Braw trysts that you'll can keep’, said Alan. ‘Ye'll just mistryst aince and for a' with the gentry in the bents’. 1894Crockett Raiders 393 An ill speldron o' a loon that had mistrysted wi' twa lasses already.
2. pass. To be perplexed, confused, frightened (app. orig. = to have an unpleasant meeting with something).
1816Scott Bl. Dwarf iii, It's a braw thing for a man to be out a' day, and frighted—na, I winna say that neither—but mistrysted wi' bogles in the hame-coming. 1818― Rob Roy xiv, They are sair mistrysted yonder in their Parliament-House, about this rubbery o' Mr. Morris. 1855Robinson Whitby Gloss., Mistrysted, frightened, put out of track. ‘I hae been sair mistrysted’, sorely perplexed. |