单词 | dudron |
释义 | † dudronn. Chiefly Scottish. Obsolete. Probably: a slovenly person; a person with shabby or ragged clothes. ΚΠ a1450 York Plays (1885) 319 (MED) Do dresse ȝou nowe dewly, To yone doderon ȝou dightis..leuys hym noȝt lightly! a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 151 Mony slute daw and slepy duddroun. 1536 D. Lindsay Answer to Kingis Flyting 59 To indyte, how that duddroun was drest, Drowkit with dreggis, quhimperand with mony quhryne. 1568 ( D. Lindsay Satyre (Bannatyne) l. 933 in Wks. (1931) II. 144 Schaw me thy name, duddroun [1602 dudron], with diligence. 1790 A. Wilson Poems 39 Some there are, whase flinty hearts, An' hollow heads (poor wretches!) Despise the Poet's glorious parts, An' ca' them daudron b—ch—s. 1824 J. Struthers Poems I. 112 The captive o' some dudron dring, Dull, fat an' frowsy. 1824 J. Mactaggart Sc. Gallovidian Encycl. 187 Dudderon, a person in rags. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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