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单词 flaughtbred
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flaughtbredadv.

Etymology: < flaught adv. + bred, past participle of brede v.2 to spread out.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈflaughtbred.
Scottish.
With the arms spread out like the wings of a flying bird; hence, eagerly.
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1768 A. Ross Fortunate Shepherdess 8 Lindy..catcht a fa', Flaught bred upon his face, an' there he lay.
1768 A. Ross Fortunate Shepherdess 76 Flaught bred upon her, but the house he sprang.
1785 Select Coll. Poems Buchan Dial. 4 The first man that..Came flaught-bred to the toulzie.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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