单词 | gey and |
释义 | > as lemmasgey and (…) 1. gey and (…) (also geyan, gyan, and variants) (followed by an adjective): considerably, ‘pretty’. ΚΠ 1725 A. Ramsay Gentle Shepherd i. i. Song i Last Morning I was gay and early out. 1788 J. Macaulay Poems Var. Subj. 116 To ken what is to be refus'd,..Shou'd gay an' aften on be mus'd. a1837 R. Nicoll Poems (1842) 96 Our wealth is gatherin' gey an' slow,'Twill ne'er be great, I fear. 1848 J. Boyce Shandy M'Guire i. 7 Guid day, neighbor,..yer guy an' early at wark this mornin'. 1873 J. Brown Round Table Club 122 Isna that man..geyan like John Gordon, the Elgin plumber? 1880 W. H. Patterson Gloss. Words Antrim & Down (at cited word) It's gy an' hot the day. 1884 Illustr. London News 24 May 510/3 You're gey and wet. 1926 ‘H. MacDiarmid’ Drunk Man looks at Thistle 1 It's gey and hard wark' [sic] coupin' gless for gless Wi' Cruivie and Gilsanquhar and the like. 1991 T. S. Law in T. Hubbard New Makars 34 This was a sairlik jobe tae tak, An gif the chiel was no sae swack O mynd as caw gy caunnilie, But gabbit gyan coorselik, say, He'd finnd the waefou news as ill. ?2002 I. W. D. Forde Hale ir Sindries ii. viii. 176 A’m geyan sairie ye bene incarcerat on ma behauf. < as lemmas |
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