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单词 cross-patch
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cross-patchn.

Etymology: < cross adj. 5 + patch n.1Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈcross-patch.
colloquial.
A cross, ill-tempered person. (Usually applied to a girl or woman; Scott makes it masculine.)
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the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > ill-naturedness > [noun] > ill-natured person
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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).
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