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单词 flocht
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flochtn.

/flɒxt/
Forms: Also 1500s–1600s flought. See also flaught n.2
Etymology: apparently representing an Old English *flohta , parallel with the -ti stem flyht , flight n.1 4.
Scottish. Obsolete.
a. A state of agitation or excitement. Chiefly in phrases in, on flocht, in a flocht, in a flutter. Cf. flight n.1 4.
ΚΠ
a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 155 Thair hairtis wer baith on flocht.
?1590–1 J. Burel Passage of Pilgremer ii, in Poems sig. Qv Feir pat my hart in sick a flocht.
1641 R. Baillie Lett. & Jrnls. (1841) I. 392 These horrible designes breaking out, all the citie was in a flought.
b. ‘Fluctuation, constant variation’ (Jamieson).
ΚΠ
a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 79 This fals warld is ay on flocht, Quhair no thing ferme is nor degest.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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