| 单词 | foul fall |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfoul (also shame) fall —— a. foul (also shame) fall —— and variants: may ill fortune, disgrace, etc., befall (someone or something). Chiefly Scottish after Middle English. Now archaic and rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > malediction > oaths > [interjection] > oaths other than religious or obscene > imprecations woeOE dahetc1290 confoundc1330 foul (also shame) fall ——c1330 sorrow on——c1330 in the wanianda1352 wildfirea1375 evil theedomc1386 a pestilence on (also upon)c1390 woe betide you (also him, her, etc.)c1390 maldathaita1400 murrainc1400 out ona1415 in the wild waning worldc1485 vengeance?a1500 in a wanion1549 with a wanion1549 woe worth1553 a plague on——a1566 with a wanion to?c1570 with a wanyand1570 bot1584 maugre1590 poxa1592 death1593 rot1594 rot on1595 cancro1597 pax1604 pize on (also upon)1605 vild1605 peascod1606 cargo1607 confusion1608 perditiona1616 (a) pest upon1632 deuce1651 stap my vitals1697 strike me blind, dumb, lucky (if, but—)1697 stop my vitals1699 split me (or my windpipe)1700 rabbit1701 consume1756 capot me!1760 nick me!1760 weary set1788 rats1816 bad cess to1859 curse1885 hanged1887 buggeration1964 c1330 Otuel (Auch.) (1882) l. 108 (MED) He seide to him amydde his halle, ‘Sire king, foule mote þe falle!’ c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 2378 Lo! þer þe falssyng, foule mot hit falle! a1413 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (Pierpont Morgan) (1882) iv. l. 462 Now fowle falle here þat for þi wo hath care. 1567 Compend. Bk. Godly Songs (1897) 205 Schame fall the cumpanie. a1585 P. Hume Flyting with Montgomerie (Tullibardine) ix. 60 in Poems A. Montgomerie (2000) I. 173 Purspeiller, hen steiller, cat keiller, now I knaw þe, Rubiatour, fornicatour by natour, foul fa the. 1594 J. Dickenson Arisbas sig. D3v Foule fall the wagge that lost so rare a iewell. 1718 A. Ramsay Elegies 13 Shame faw ye'r Chandler Chafts, O Death. a1775 Hobie Noble i, in F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads (1890) IV. vii. clxxxix. 2/1 Foul fa the breast first treason bred in! 1810 J. Cock Simple Strains 91 Foul fa' the sly bewitchin' heap Cou'd turn hersel' in ony shape. 1830 Ld. Tennyson Grasshopper in Poems 108 Shame fall 'em. 1860 T. Martin tr. Horace Odes 218 Foul fall the day. 1901 Border Mag. Nov. 67/1 Now gentlemen, ye know the price of a conventicle, and shame fall them that tires first! 1957 D. L. Sayers tr. Song of Roland 126 Foul fall you, accursed Paynim wretch! < as lemmas |
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