| 释义 |
neeze, v. Now north. dial. and Sc.|niːz|
Forms: 4–6 nese, 6 niese, Sc. neys, nyse, 6–9 neese, (7 nees), 6– neeze.
[ME. nēsen, prob. ad. ON. hnjósa (Norw. njosa, nysa, Sw. nysa, Da. nyse) = OHG. niosan (G. niesen), MLG. nêsen, neysen, MDu. niesen (Du. niezen), prob. of imitative origin: cf. fnese, sneeze.]
To sneeze.
c1340Nominale (Skeat) 172 Man cowith and nesith. 1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) V. 389 A man nesynge. 1486Bk. St. Albans c vij, When ye se yowre hawke Nesyng and Castyng wat thorogh her Nostrellis. 1544T. Phaer Regim. Life (1553) A viij b, Ye must put in the nose of the pacient, pouder of pellitory of Spain..to make him to nese. 1586Cogan Haven Health xxviii. (1636) 48 By eating of Mustard..we are straightway..provoked to neese. 1665Spencer Vulg. Proph. 96 When any one neezed they would venerate the noise as a kind of expression of the Deity inshrined in the head. 1725Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Neesing, A Horse, whose Head being stopp'd..so that he cannot neeze. 1788W. Marshall Yorksh. II. 343. 1825 Brockett N.C. Gloss. 1849–in northern dial. glossaries (also Chesh. and Shropsh.). 1870J. Nicholson Idylls 64 A waff frae the door gars her 'neeze.
Hence neeze n., a sneeze. rare.
1656S. Holland Zara (1719) 54 Circumgyring about his Weasand, [it] inforced him to a manly Neese. 1866in Banffsh. Gloss. 1899in Cumbld. Gloss. |