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ˈShrove-tide
Also 5 schrof-, -ffe-, shorff-, 5–6 shrof(f)-, 6 north. s(c)hraf-, 6–7 shros- (?); 6 shrosty (?), shrovety.
[Of obscure origin.
The first element is undoubtedly related to shrive and refers to the custom of being shriven in preparation for Lent.
An OE. *scráf shriving, confession, f. scrífan to shrive, would account phonologically for shrove-, but, if the form actually existed, the absence of evidence for this group of words until the 15th c. is remarkable. (Other early names for the season were Fastens-een, Fast-gong, Fastingong.)]
The period comprising Quinquagesima Sunday and the two following days, ‘Shrove’ Monday and Tuesday.
c1425Orolog. Sapient. vii. in Anglia X. 386/39 Þe sondaye In Quinquagesime, with þe tweyne dayes folowynge, þat is clepyd Schroftyde. c1512Regul. Northumbld. Househ. (1770) 377 From Alhallowtid to Shraftide. 1544Star Chamber Cases (Selden Soc.) II. 250 Frome all halouday vntyll Shrostyde. 1597Shakes. 2 Hen. IV. v. iii. 38 'Tis merry in Hall, when Beards wagge all; And welcome merry Shrouetide. c1618Moryson Itin. iv. 488 Paying their tribute to the Pope at Shrostyde, when they are allowed to shewe publike games. 1670R. Lassels Voy. Italy I. 214 Having spunn out thus the time till near Carnavale or shroftide. 1795Southey Joan of Arc x. 434 He could sing Carols for Shrove-tide, or for Candlemas. 1853Rock Ch. Fathers III. ii. 61 Shrove-tide, or the week before Lent.
1544in Sel. Cases Crt. Requests (Selden Soc.) 96 The tenauntes..shall befor Shrosty next..pay the rerages of the same. 1573in Feuillerat Revels Q. Eliz. (1908) 212 To know..his pleasure for preparacions to be made against Shrovety.
b. fig. A time of merriment.
1840Longfellow Span. Stud. iii. i, Enjoy the merry shrove⁓tide of thy youth!
c. attrib., as Shrovetide even, Shrove-tide-fool; † Shrovetide cock, a cock tied up and pelted with sticks on Shrove Tuesday; † Shrovetide hen, a hen sent as a present on Shrove Tuesday.
1598Bp. Hall Sat. iv. v, A Shroftide Hen, Which bought to giue, he takes to sell agen. c1640H. Bell Luther's Colloq. Mens. (1652) 283 The world cannot live without such Vizards and Shrovetide-Fools. 1700Dryden Fables, Cock & Fox 106 Never was Shrovetide-Cock in such a Fear. 1768J. Trusler Hogarth Moralized 180 Throwing at a cock, the universal shrove-tide amusement. 1789Wolcott (P. Pindar) Subj. for Painters 7 Martyr beat like Shrovetide cocks with bats. 1820Scott Monast. xxxiv, As surely..as ever cock fought on Shrove-tide-even. |