单词 | collyweston |
释义 | Collywestonadj.n.adv. 1. Used attributively or absol. to designate a kind of slate used for roofing. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > stone or rock > [adjective] > covered with slate > type of slate Collyweston1870 society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > stone or rock > [noun] > building stone > stone of the nature of slate > for roofing > types of skaillie1496 Stonesfield slate1855 Welsh lay1891 Collyweston1949 1791 J. Bridges Hist. & Antiq. Northants. II. 433 In Colly Weston..great quantities of slates are raised for covering houses.] 1870 S. Sharp in Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. 26 371 The calcareous nature of these beds, and..of the Colleyweston Slate. 1906 B. Thompson Vict. County Hist. Northampton II. 303/1 Collyweston slate..is found and has been worked at other places besides Collyweston, such as Kirby and Easton, between Collyweston and Stamford. 1949 W. G. Hoskins Midland Eng. v. 70 Everyone with an eye for colour and form knows those mellow, lichened roofs of Colly Westons. 1958 Listener 14 Aug. 239/3 The roof of Nuffield College is covered with Collyweston stone slates. 2. Usually spelt coll(e)y-west. a. adv. Awry, askew; in an opposite or wrong direction. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > inaccuracy, inexactness > [adverb] > in adjustment Collyweston1820 untruly1844 1587 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. (1877) ii. vii. 168 The Morisco gowns, the Barbarian sleeves, the mandilion worne to Collie weston ward, and the short French breches, make such a comelie vesture.] 1820 R. Wilbraham Attempt Gloss. Cheshire 22 Colly west, adv., directly contrary. 1855 Trans. Philol. Soc. 229 When a Lancashire man is altogether unsuccessful in his schemes, he says that everything goes colley-west with him. 1884 R. Holland Gloss. Words County of Chester I. 75 ‘Am I going right for such and such a place?’ ‘Nao, its collyweston.’ b. n. Nonsense. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > [noun] magged talea1387 moonshine1468 trumperyc1485 foolishness1531 trash1542 baggage1545 flim-flam1570 gear1570 rubbisha1576 fiddle-faddle1577 stuff1579 fible-fable1581 balductum1593 pill1608 nonsense1612 skimble-skamble1619 porridge1642 mataeology1656 fiddle-come-faddle1663 apple sauce1672 balderdash1674 flummery1749 slang1762 all my eye1763 diddle-daddle1778 (all) my eye (and) Betty Martin1781 twaddle1782 blancmange1790 fudge1791 twiddle-twaddle1798 bothering1803 fee-faw-fum1811 slip-slop1811 nash-gab1816 flitter-tripe1822 effutiation1823 bladderdash1826 ráiméis1828 fiddlededee1843 pickles1846 rot1846 kelter1847 bosh1850 flummadiddle1850 poppycock1852 Barnum1856 fribble-frabble1859 kibosh1860 skittle1864 cod1866 Collyweston1867 punk1869 slush1869 stupidness1873 bilge-water1878 flapdoodle1878 tommyrot1880 ruck1882 piffle1884 flamdoodle1888 razzmatazz1888 balls1889 pop1890 narrischkeit1892 tosh1892 footle1894 tripe1895 crap1898 bunk1900 junk1906 quatsch1907 bilge1908 B.S.1912 bellywash1913 jazz1913 wash1913 bullshit?1915 kid-stakes1916 hokum1917 bollock1919 bullsh1919 bushwa1920 noise1920 bish-bosh1922 malarkey1923 posh1923 hooey1924 shit1924 heifer dust1927 madam1927 baloney1928 horse feathers1928 phonus-bolonus1929 rhubarb1929 spinach1929 toffeea1930 tomtit1930 hockey1931 phoney baloney1933 moody1934 cockalorum1936 cock1937 mess1937 waffle1937 berley1941 bull dust1943 crud1943 globaloney1943 hubba-hubba1944 pish1944 phooey1946 asswipe1947 chickenshit1947 slag1948 batshit1950 goop1950 slop1952 cack1954 doo-doo1954 cobbler1955 horse shit1955 nyamps1955 pony1956 horse manure1957 waffling1958 bird shit1959 codswallop1959 how's your father1959 dog shit1963 cods1965 shmegegge1968 pucky1970 taradiddle1970 mouthwash1971 wank1974 gobshite1977 mince1985 toss1990 arse1993 1867 P. Kennedy Banks of Boro xxxvii. 287 Oh that's all collywest... What is the good of being an ordained clergyman, if you have not the power of doing something for an unlucky disciple like myself? c. adj. Contrary, contradictory. Cf. galley-west adv. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > statement > denial or contradiction > [adjective] > having quality or character of again-sayingc1475 contradictious1604 contradictory1605 contradictorious1608 contradictional1641 contradictive1641 contradictorial1644 abnutive1682 Collyweston1875 1875 J. H. Nodal & G. Milner Gloss. Lancs. Dial.: Pt. I 87 Never mind him; he ne'er agrees wi' onybody; he's awhiz collywest. 1891 J. Baron Blegburn Dickshonary 17 Wot's th' odds, iv fooak y' took for friends Should turn eawt colly-west? This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.adv.1820 |
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