α. 1800s–1900s angyshore, 1800s– angashore, 1800s– anghashore, 1800s– angishore, 1900s– aingisheoir, 1900s– ainniseoir, 1900s– angashure.
β. Newfoundland 1900s 'ang-ashore, 1900s– 'angashore, 1900s– 'angshore, 1900s– hang-a-shore, 1900s– hangashore.
单词 | angishore |
释义 | angishoren.α. 1800s–1900s angyshore, 1800s– angashore, 1800s– anghashore, 1800s– angishore, 1900s– aingisheoir, 1900s– ainniseoir, 1900s– angashure. β. Newfoundland 1900s 'ang-ashore, 1900s– 'angashore, 1900s– 'angshore, 1900s– hang-a-shore, 1900s– hangashore. 1. Irish English and Newfoundland. A weak, pitiable, or poverty-stricken person; a wretch. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > poverty > [noun] > poor person poorc1225 poor man?c1225 beggar1340 goodlessa1350 poreleta1382 miserable1484 poor one1562 bankrupt?1563 indigent1563 poorling1581 poor snake1590 needling1608 desperviewa1640 have-nota1739 angishore1835 little worth1885 the mind > emotion > suffering > misery > [noun] > miserable person armOE ermingOE wretchc1000 caitiffc1325 crachouna1400 miserable1484 miser1542 elf1573 angishore1835 1835 Dublin Penny Jrnl. 25 July 31/2 May-be your honour would have marcy on an unfortunate angishore. 1887 ‘F. M. Allen’ From Portlaw to Paradise in Through Green Glasses 61 ‘Ah give the poor angashore a chance,’ says Saint Pathrick. 1929 F. Miller In Caribou Land 44 ‘Big Davey's Comforting’: so he kep' bathin' the place 'at's tore An' saying—‘Pore little 'ang-ashore!’. 1975 Canad. Antiques Collector Mar. 22/2 We have still in common use such Anglo-Irish terms as: angishore (a weak, miserable person). 2. Newfoundland. Now chiefly in form hangashore. A person who is too lazy or cowardly to go to sea. Also as a more general term of abuse. ΚΠ 1924 G. A. England Vikings of Ice xvi. 180 Know where them angyshores [worthless fellows] was to? Hidin' behind a pinnacle. 1966 A. R. Scammell My Newfoundland 54 I got no use for that dolled-up hangashore. He's a city man an' he thinks he can boss everybody around here. 1970 P. Janes House of Hate i. iii. 23 He still grumbled that if a man was not wearing khaki people seemed to take it for granted that he was some kind of a cowardly hangashore, a slacker. 2005 St. John's (Newfoundland) Telegram (Nexis) 30 July b3 We sped through a narrow chute lined by a sheer cliff on one side and the Shag Rocks on the other. Now that's enough to make the hair stand up on a hangashore's head! This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1835 |
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