| 释义 |
quisquose, -quous, a. Sc.
Also 9 quiscos(kos); quisquis.
[Of obscure origin.]
Difficult to deal with or settle, ticklish, ‘kittle’.
1720Wodrow Corr. (1843) II. 485 Being biassed with his opinion in quisquose and difficult matters. 1721Wodrow Hist. Suffer. Ch. Scot. (1829) II. ii. xiii. 499 The truths delivered by ministers..on quisquous subjects. 1830Galt Lawrie T. iv. ix. (1849) 175 Your conduct this day has been very quiscos. 1836― in Tait's Mag. III. 33 The ladies maybe a wee quiscoskos in character. 1856J. Strang Glasgow & its Clubs 61 Mr. G. M―, a very unpopular and quis-quis character. 1899J. B. Montgomerie-Fleming Desultory Notes on Jamieson's Scott. Dict. 122 Strangers arriving in a place and being considered of doubtful character are spoken of as ‘Very quisquis sort of people’. |