释义 |
carˈdooer Sc. [f. vb. cardoo, cardow, curdow, expl. by Jamieson as ‘To mend old clothes, patch, botch’: of uncertain origin.]
1837Lockhart Scott (1839) VII. 217 A little hunchbacked tailor..one of the race who creep from homestead to homestead..the great gossips and newsmen of the parish,—in Scottish nomenclature cardooers. |