单词 | drummle |
释义 | drummlev. Chiefly Scottish. Now rare. transitive. To make (water) turbid, murky, or cloudy; to muddy. Also figurative: to disturb, perturb; to trouble; to confuse. Formerly also intransitive with at in same sense. Sc. National Dict. (at Drumle, Drummle, Drum(m)el) records the word as still in use in Roxburghshire in 1940, but marks it as obsolescent. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > [verb (transitive)] > stir up or render turbid stirc1000 blend1384 trouble1579 puddle1593 mud1594 muddy1617 drummle1635 blunder1655 muddy1669 muddle1676 inturbidate1684 to shake up1753 1635 A. Cummin in Funerals P. Forbes 407 Since clearest heads are drumled; then bee sure The mudled way-floods can haue no thing pure. 1724 A. Ramsay Dk. of Hamilton's Shooting in Royal Compet. of Archers (1726) 46 Souple Rogues..That drumble [1731 and many later eds. drumble at] the common Weal. 1777 Whole Proc. Jockey & Maggy (rev. ed.) iv. 24 See how ye hae drummel'd a John Davie's well. 1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. To Drumble, Drummle,..to make muddy..to trouble. 1832 W. Motherwell Poems 185 Little weet they o' the cause that drumles sae my ee. 1895 Otago Witness (Dunedin, N.Z.) 11 July 19/4 Yonder muddy pool, being yet more ‘drummled’ by that wallowing sow and those quacking, tumbling ducks. 1897 T. Murray Frae Heather 43 Tho' the spates the burnies drummel, Yont the mist is comin' cheer. Derivatives ˈdrummled adj. turbid, cloudy; disturbed, confused. ΚΠ 1637 S. Rutherford Lett. (1863) I. 355 My drumbled and troubled well began to clear. 1723 W. Meston Knight 22 These corrupt, Heathnish, Pagan Fountains, That run among the rugged Mountains, Where Learning lyes in drumbled Water. 1774 Exact Hist. Battle of Floddon 71 The ale is drumbled. N[orthern]. i.e. Disturbed, muddy. 1873 P. Buchan Guidman o' Inglismill in Legends of North 44 For length o' road he caredna half a bodle, The breadth o't sairly fash'd his drummel'd nodle. 1895 Selangor Jrnl. 19 Apr. 258 They had actually crossed the track where we now stood—a few hours before, perhaps; but the wet mud on the grass and ‘drummled’ state of the water were unmistakeable. 1985 W. L. Lorimer & R. L. C. Lorimer New Test. in Scots (rev. ed.) Luke xxi. 149 See at ye becomena drummelt i the wit wi debosh an drinkin an warldlie fykes. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1635 |
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