单词 | cross-patch |
释义 | cross-patchn. colloquial. A cross, ill-tempered person. (Usually applied to a girl or woman; Scott makes it masculine.) ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > ill-naturedness > [noun] > ill-natured person crab1574 crab-staffa1603 hunks1602 snarler1634 cross-piecea1652 cross-patch1699 vixen1699 frump1817 catamaran1834 patch1839 crab-stick1840 hunkster1842 grump1900 wampus1912 maltalent1965 the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > ill-naturedness > ill nature in woman or shrewishness > [noun] > shrew scoldc1175 shrewc1386 viragoc1386 scolder1423 common scold1467 wild cat1570 vixen1575 callet1577 termagant1578 (Long) Meg of Westminster1589 butter whore1592 cotquean1593 scrattop1593 scoldsterc1600 butter-quean1613 Xantippea1616 fury1620 Tartar1669 fish-woman1698 cross-patch1699 Whitechapel fortune1734 brimstone1751 randy1762 fish-fag1786 rantipole1790 skellata1810 skimmington1813 targer1822 skellat-bell1827 catamaran1834 nagster1873 yenta1923 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Crosspatch, a peevish Person. 1775 F. Burney Jrnl. 28 Feb. in Early Jrnls. & Lett. (1990) II. 71 ‘You little Cross Patch’, cried I. 1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian iv, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. III. 103 The keeper's a cross patch, and he maun hae it a' his ain gate. 1874 L. Carr Judith Gwynne I. vii. 206 She's a nasty cross-patch. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1699 |
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