单词 | gash-gabbit |
释义 | gash-gabbitadj. Scottish. Having a protruding chin or lower jaw. Sc. National Dictionary (at Gash) records this word as still in use in Angus and Lanarkshire in 1954. ΚΠ 1720 A. Ramsay Poems Gloss. at Gash One with [a] long out Chin, we call Gash-Gabbet, or Gash Beard. 1813 D. Anderson Poems, Eng. & Scotch 125 A' teethless and gash-gabbit, The hags that night. 1883 Life & Work Mag. Aug. 116/2 The least amiable member of the Laird's kennel..was a brute..with blear eyes, and hideously underhung (gash gabbit). 1933 N. B. Morrison Gowk Storm 43 Nannie was wont to say that ‘gash-gabbit’ children were usually forward and ‘quick on the uptak'’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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