| 单词 | gallows air |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgallows air 1. Fit for the gallows; deserving to be hanged; villainous, wicked. Now only dialect in weaker sense, esp. of children: Impish, wild, mischievous. gallows air = hangdog air: see hang-dog adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > roguery > [adjective] > and worthy of hanging gallowsc1425 rope-ripe1552 hangworthya1586 hempy1801 society > morality > moral evil > wickedness > roguery, knavery, or rascalry > [adjective] > worthy of hanging gallowsc1425 widdiefu?a1513 rope-ripe1552 widdiefu1568 hangworthya1586 slip-string1629 society > morality > moral evil > wickedness > roguery, knavery, or rascalry > [adjective] > playfully or mischievously roguish pickled1683 pickle1774 hempy1801 impish1834 natkhat1843 puckish1874 gallows1882 gamine1903 c1425 Bk. Found. St. Bartholomew's (1923) 37 This gallowus man toke hym by the skyrtis of his palle or mantyl. 1551 R. Robinson tr. T. More Vtopia i. sig. Eiii No gallous, wretche, I am not angry. c1708 ? E. Ward Welsh-monster 33 For ev'ry Line did in it bear Such a rebellious Gallows Air, That [etc.]. 1786 R. Burns Poems 32 An' plunder'd o' her hindmost groat, By gallows knaves. 1819 W. Irving Rip Van Winkle in Sketch Bk. i. 66 Wolf..sneaked about with a gallows air. 1882 J. H. Nodal & G. Milnar Gloss. Lancashire Dial. Gallows, cunning, designing full of duplicity. 1884 Upton Gloss. (at cited word) ‘'Taint as the lad's wicked, nor yet spiteful, but 'e's desp'rut gallus.’ 1892 G. Hake Mem. 80 Years 44 They [King's Ward boys at Christ's Hospital circa 1820] were always considered a very gallous [sic] set, which in the school vocabulary signified ‘daring’. < as lemmas |
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