单词 | dreep |
释义 | dreepn. dialect. 1. A wet, dripping condition; (see also quot. 1887). ΚΠ 1844 W. Jamie Muse of Mearns 103 They danced till in a dreep wi' sweat. 1887 D. Donaldson Jamieson's Sc. Dict. Suppl. Dreep, s., drip, dripping, as from a roast, from the eaves, &c.: also, the eaves; and where drops from the eaves fall on the ground, as, ‘Ye mun bide within your ain dreep.’ 2. An ineffective, spiritless, or lugubrious person; a ‘drip’. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [noun] > tedious or dull person grub1653 noddeea1680 insipid1699 rocker1762 bore1812 Dryasdust1819 insipidity1822 prose1844 bagpipe1850 vampire1862 pill1865 jeff1870 terebrant1890 poop1893 stodger1905 club bore1910 nudnik1916 stodge1922 dreary1925 dreep1927 binder1930 drip1932 douchebag1946 drear1958 drag1959 noodge1968 anorak1984 the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > [noun] > that which is useless > useless person or thing cumber-worldc1374 cumber-house1541 deaf nut1613 cumber-ground1657 dead duck1844 no good1871 dead wood1877 dead wood1887 blue duck1889 dud1897 cluck1904 non-starter1911 dead loss1927 dreep1927 write-off1935 no-gooder1936 nogoodnik1936 blivet1967 roadkill1990 1927 Spectator 5 Nov. 171 What can you expect of ‘Sammy dreeps’, ‘dozened idiots’ or ‘glaikit stirks’? 1940 in Sc. National Dict. (1952) III. (at cited word) That wumman's jist a dreep. I canna thole her. 1942 ‘P. Wentworth’ Danger Point xxii. 130 ‘Will you give me your impression of the girl.’.. ‘Oh, a long, thin dreep. No guts. The sort that whines.’ 1970 ‘D. Shannon’ Unexpected Death (1971) vii. 99 She was, he thought, a dreep. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online June 2018). dreepdrepev. Obsolete exc. dialect. 1. intransitive. To fall in drops, to drip. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of dripping or falling in drops > drip or fall in drops [verb (intransitive)] syec725 dreepa1000 dropc1000 tricklec1386 thrill1540 drill1603 dripa1670 a1000 Ags. Ps. (1835) lxxi[i]. 6 Dropa þe on þas eorðan up on dreopað. c1430 J. Lydgate tr. Bochas Fall of Princes 67 b Of Diana the transmutacion, Now bright, now pale, now clere, now dreping. ?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) l. 3198 Þe terys oure hir face drepyd. 1571 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Psalmes of Dauid with Comm. (xxix. 4) The Rayne dreepeth doune softly. 1594 T. Lodge Wounds Ciuill War v, in W. C. Hazlitt Dodsley's Sel. Coll. Old Eng. Plays (1874) VII. 183 The dreeping dimness of the night. 1681 S. Colvil Mock Poem (1751) 55 Some with spilled drink are dreeping, And some sit on a privy sleeping. 1825 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words at Dreap ‘Dreaping o' wet’. a1835 Hogg Ringan & May 50 Well do I like at the gloaming still, To dreep from the lift or the lowering hill. 2. To droop; figurative to lose courage, grow faint. (See also quot. 1825 at sense 1.) ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > fear > dismay > lose heart or be dismayed [verb (intransitive)] mayc1380 bash1382 dismayc1390 darea1400 dreepc1430 discourage1524 quail1548 blank1642 despond1655 the mind > emotion > fear > timidity > be timorous [verb (intransitive)] > grow timid or lose courage fainta1375 dreepc1430 tainta1616 the world > space > relative position > support > hanging or suspension > hang or be suspended [verb (intransitive)] > hang down > droop or hang limply droopa1400 dreepc1430 amortize1480 lop1578 weep1764 c1430 J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1840) 161 Alcestis flower..In stormys dreepithe. c1450 Cov. Myst. (Shaks. Soc.) 170 In goode tyme ȝe dede downe drepe To take ȝowr rest. c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 10795 Þai drepit in dole, as þai degh shuld. 1807 R. Tannahill Soldier's Return 47 Sers! how your tail, an' wings are dreeping! 1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. Dreip..4. To walk very slowly; as, ‘There she comes dreepin'.’..To do any piece of business slowly, and without any apparent interest. 1894 R. Reid Poems 240 Never herriet mavis dreept sae lane and chill. 1941 L. A. G. Strong Bay viii. 179 A shuffling, dreeping old crone. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1844v.a1000 |
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