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单词 dreng
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drengn.

/drɛŋ/
Forms: Also Old English drench, drengh, Middle English drenche, dringche, Middle English dring(e, Scottish1500s–1700s dring.
Origin: A borrowing from early Scandinavian. Etymon: Norse drengr.
Etymology: Old English dreng, Old Norse drengr young man, lad, fellow, (Swedish dräng man, servant, some one's ‘man’, Danish dreng boy, lad, apprentice). The modern word, had it survived in living use, would have been dring; but the Old English and Norse form dreng is retained by historical writers.
English History.
a. A free tenant (specially) in ancient Northumbria, holding by a tenure older than the Norman Conquest, the nature of which was partly military, partly servile. See Maitland, ‘Northumbrian Tenures’ in Eng. Hist. Rev. V. 632.
ΘΚΠ
society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > tenure of property > one who has tenure > [noun] > leaseholder or tenant > others
drenga1000
selfode1271
thringc1275
particular tenant1590
rack-renter1680
zamindar1683
roturier1830
statutory tenant1867
livier1883
church renter1889
congest1902
a1000 Battle of Maldon 149 Forlet ða drenga sum daroð of handa, fleogan of folmum.
OE Domesday Bk. (1783) I. f. 269v/2 [Phillimore: Cheshire (between Ribble and Mersey) R2. 1] Hujus Manerii [Newton, Lancs.] aliam terram xv homines quos drenchs uocabant pro xv Maneriis tenebant... Modo sunt ibi vi drenghs.
c1100 Charter of Ranulph in Murray Dial. S.C. Scot. 22 (note) R[anulf] bisceop greteð wel alle his þeines & drenges of Ealondscire & of Norhamscire.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 7336 Drenches.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 6344 Aldroein wes þer king vnder him wes moni hæh dring [c1300 Otho herdling].
c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) 2258 And siþen drenges, and siþen thaynes, And siþen knithes, and siþen sweynes.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 16022 All þai gadird o þe tun, bath freman and dring.
1874 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. (ed. 3) I. §96. 262 Lanfranc..turned the drengs, the rent-paying tenants of his archiepiscopal estates, into knights for the defence of the country.
1890 F. W. Maitland in Eng. Hist. Rev. V. 628 Under Richard I the thegns and drengs of Northumberland paid tallage.
b. Contemptuously: A low or base fellow. Scottish.
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society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > low or vulgar person > [noun]
gadlinga1300
geggea1300
churlc1300
filec1300
jot1362
scoutc1380
beggara1400
carla1400
turnbroach14..
villainc1400
gnoffc1405
fellowc1425
cavelc1430
haskardc1487
hastardc1489
foumart1508
strummel?a1513
knapper1513
hogshead?1518
jockeya1529
dreng1535
sneakbill1546
Jack1548
rag1566
scald1575
huddle and twang1578
sneaksby1580
companion1581
lowling1581
besognier1584
patchcock1596
grill1597
sneaksbill1602
scum1607
turnspit1607
cocoloch1610
compeer1612
dust-worm1621
besonioa1625
world-worma1625
besognea1652
gippo1651
Jacky1653
mechanic1699
fustya1732
grub-worm1752
raff1778
person1782
rough scuff1816
spalpeen1817
bum1825
sculpin1834
soap-lock1840
tinka1843
'Arry1874
scruff1896
scruffo1959
1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) III. 278 Quhilk is knawin for ane wrache or dring.
a1605 Polwart Flyting with Montgomerie 796 Deid dring, dryd sting! thou will hing but a sunȝie.
1799 J. Struthers To Blackbird ix The Captive o' some dudron dring, Dull, fat an' frowsy.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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