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单词 crummie
释义

crummien.adj.

Brit. /ˈkrʌmi/, U.S. /ˈkrəmi/, Scottish English /ˈkrʌmɪ/
Forms: Also 1700s cromie; also crummy.
Etymology: < crum, crumb adj. crooked + -ie = -y suffix4 diminutive and denominative, as in blacky, brownie, cowdie, doddie, etc.
Scottish and northern.
A. n.
1. A cow with ‘crumpled’ or crooked horns; often a kind of proper name for any cow.
ΚΠ
1724 A. Ramsay Tea-table Misc. (1733) I. 111 My Cromie is a useful cow.
a1774 R. Fergusson Poems (1785) 182 Crummie nae mair for Jenny's hand will crune.
1824 W. Scott Redgauntlet I. ii. 23 The crummie drank without sitting down.
1876 D. Gorrie Summers & Winters in Orkneys I. 39 Old men leading highboned crummies equally grave.
2. A staff with a crooked head.
ΚΠ
1808–25 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Crummie-staff, crummie-stick.
1839 G. MacIndoe in Whistle-Binkie 2nd Ser. 111 The carlins coost their crummies tilt, Sae vauntingly they vapour'd.
B. adj.
Having crooked or crumpled horns.
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1878 W. Dickinson Gloss. Words & Phrases Cumberland (ed. 2) Crummy, crum-horn't, [having] horns turned towards the eyes.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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