单词 | crayse |
释义 | craysecraiseyn. local. A rustic name of various species of Ranunculus or buttercup. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > buttercup and allied flowers > buttercup butterflower1527 kingcup1538 crow-flower1597 king-cob1597 gilt cup1610 pissabed1640 Goldilocks1650 craysec1652 buttercup1688 yellow cup1824 bulbous buttercup1844 goldballs1854 Meg-many-feet1878 clovewort1886 sitfast1901 c1652 in Roxburghe Ballads (1873) I. 340 With milkmaids Hunney~suckle's phrase, The crow's-foot, nor the yellow crayse. 1789 W. Marshall Rural Econ. Glocestershire I. 178 Creeping crowfoot, provincially creeping-crazey. 1847–78 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words Craisey, the butter-cup. Wilts..Crazey, crow's foot. South. 1869 J. Britten Q. Jrnl. Folkestone Nat. Hist. Soc. I. 29 In Gloucestershire, Wiltshire, etc., Buttercups are known as ‘Crazies’—a word, which is in Buckinghamshire embodied in ‘Butter-creeses’ and ‘Yellow creeses’, applied indiscriminately to the three species. 1879 R. C. A. Prior On Pop. Names Brit. Plants (ed. 3) 57 Crazy or Craisey, the buttercup, apparently a corruption of Christ's eye, L. oculus Christi, the medieval name of the marigold. 1884 Upton-on-Severn Gloss. Craisy, a buttercup. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.c1652 |
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