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单词 feirie
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feirieadj.

Forms: Also Middle English, 1500s fery, 1600s, 1700s feerie.
Etymology: ? representing Old English *férig , < fór action of going (see fore n.) + -ig , -y suffix1: compare the synonymous fere adj.
Scottish. Obsolete.
a. Fit to travel; hence nimble, vigorous. Const. of.
ΚΠ
c1425 Wyntoun Cron. ix. ix. 10 His eldare Swne Wes noucht fery.
a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1959) vi. v. 20 Als fery and als swippir as a page.
1603 Thre Prestis of Peblis (Charteris) (1920) 28 The king was..Ane feirie man on fute.
17.. in J. Watson Choice Coll. Scots Poems (1706) i. 59 Of foot he is not feerie.
1792 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) II. 652 O had your tongue, my feirrie [MS ferrie] auld wife.
b. quasi-adv. Cleverly, actively.
ΚΠ
1810 A. Cunningham et al. Remains Nithsdale & Galloway Song 60 An' feerie, can cross it in two braid cockle shells.

Derivatives

ˈfeirily adv. nimbly, actively.
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1552 D. Lindsay Dreme 12 Sumtyme in dansing, feiralie I flang.
1594 (a1555) D. Lindsay Hist. Squyer Meldrum l. 475, in Wks. (1931) I. 158 Quhen thay saw him sa feirelie Loup on his Hors.
1763 W. Thom Donaldsoniad in Wks. (1799) 368 It wad be better if it was a' dun bi ane that cou'd gae throw it feerily and cannily.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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