英语词汇“dreich of drawing”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

dreich to draw: slow or reluctant to act, decide, give, etc. Also (and earliest) in dreich of (also in, a) drawing in the same sense. Now rare. Sc. National Dict. (at cited word) records this phrase as known to correspondents in Aberdeenshire in 1940.

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1755 R. Forbes Jrnl. London to Portsmouth in tr. Ovid Ajax his Speech (new ed.) 31 The lads wis nae vera driech a-drawin, bat lap in amo' the dubs in a hand-clap.

1790 A. Shirrefs Poems 355 I'm but e'en right dreigh to draw, Altho' I'm fain.

1821 Scots Mag. Apr. 352/1 Whar's the leefu'-hairtit Caledonian wha wad be driech in drawing to gar the wallot skaud o' our mither-tounge shyne like the rouky gleemoch in a craunrochie morning.

1823 J. Galt Entail III. xxi. 199 The compliment is like the chariot-wheels o'Pharaoh, sae dreigh o' drawing, that I canna afford to be blate wi' you ony langer.

1895 Dundee Courier 12 July 2/5 They'd tell J. M...gif he noo wid say he'd stan' Success they'd stake their life upo'. But, haith, J. M. wis driech to draw; En' weel did he remember The dirty trick they played 'pon him At Farfar lest November.

单词	dreich of drawing
释义	> as lemmas dreich of (also in, a) drawing dreich to draw: slow or reluctant to act, decide, give, etc. Also (and earliest) in dreich of (also in, a) drawing in the same sense. Now rare. Sc. National Dict. (at cited word) records this phrase as known to correspondents in Aberdeenshire in 1940. ΚΠ 1755 R. Forbes Jrnl. London to Portsmouth in tr. Ovid Ajax his Speech (new ed.) 31 The lads wis nae vera driech a-drawin, bat lap in amo' the dubs in a hand-clap. 1790 A. Shirrefs Poems 355 I'm but e'en right dreigh to draw, Altho' I'm fain. 1821 Scots Mag. Apr. 352/1 Whar's the leefu'-hairtit Caledonian wha wad be driech in drawing to gar the wallot skaud o' our mither-tounge shyne like the rouky gleemoch in a craunrochie morning. 1823 J. Galt Entail III. xxi. 199 The compliment is like the chariot-wheels o'Pharaoh, sae dreigh o' drawing, that I canna afford to be blate wi' you ony langer. 1895 Dundee Courier 12 July 2/5 They'd tell J. M...gif he noo wid say he'd stan' Success they'd stake their life upo'. But, haith, J. M. wis driech to draw; En' weel did he remember The dirty trick they played 'pon him At Farfar lest November. extracted from dreichadj. < as lemmas
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