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单词 gast
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gastn.

Brit. /ɡɑːst/, /ɡast/, U.S. /ɡæst/, Scottish English /ɡast/
Etymology: < gast v.1
Scottish.
A fright.[Cf. quot. a14502 at gast adj.1 ]
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > fear > apprehension > [noun] > fright caused by alarm
frighta1325
affrayc1380
fray1398
gloppeninga1400
alarma1460
scare1548
affright1566
affrightment1593
aghastment1594
surprise1609
gastc1686
gliff1732
stew1806
stink1819
feeze1825
startlement1927
c1686 R. Law Memorialls (1818) 220 The woman in a gast..comes and tells her lady who had stollen her things.
1871 W. Alexander Johnny Gibb xvi. 117 Aw never got sic a gast's aw got the nicht.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

gastadj.1

Etymology: past participle of gast v.1
Terrified, afraid. for gast: for fear.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > fear > quality of terror or horror > [adjective]
affrightOE
ofgrisea1200
adreadc1225
ofgasta1300
aghastc1300
dreadc1300
dreadfula1325
dreadya1325
forfrighteda1325
frightfula1325
gasta1382
dareda1400
aghasteda1425
mazed1493
awfula1522
agazed1557
flaited1565
terrifiedc1586
gastereda1644
scarified1895
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Jer. viii. 9 Confoundid ben the wise men, gast and caȝt thei ben.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 5814 He was gast [Vesp. fraid] So ferde þat he to fle bigon.
c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 325 I know no gome þat is gast of þy grete wordes.
a1450 St. Edith (Faust.) (1883) 4023 When þuse ladyes weron a-resone vp, to han y-gon..Towarde herre chambrus for gast euerychon.
a1450 St. Edith (Faust.) (1883) 3110 He durst not meue hurre-self for gast.
a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 125 Me think my spreit rynnis away full gast.
1574 J. Higgins 1st Pt. Mirour for Magistrates Nennius f. 72v Thou neuer wast in all thy life so gast, Nor durst againe be euer halfe so bolde.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2020).

gastadj.2

/ɡast/
Etymology: Apparently cognate with geason adj. and n.; compare Middle Dutch gâst , gêst (Dutch geest ), barren soil, geest n.
dialect.
(See quots. a1825, 1895.)
ΚΠ
1729 Corton Parish (Suffolk) Terrier Every Gast Beast, i.e. for every Heifer or young Steer.
1760 Corton Parish (Suffolk) Terrier Barren or gast cattle.
a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Gast or Ghast-Cow, a cow which does not produce a calf in the season.
1895 W. Rye Gloss. Words E. Anglia Gast..Also applied to mares.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2020).

gastv.1

Forms: Old English gǽstan, Middle English gaast, 1500s ghast, Middle English–1600s gast(e.
Etymology: Old English gǽstan (only once) < Old Germanic type *gaistjan , apparently cognate with Gothic usgaisjan to terrify, usgeisnan to be terrified. See ghost n.
Obsolete.
transitive. To frighten, alarm, scare, terrify.In quot. OE the sense seems to be rather ‘to torture’ or ‘to destroy’.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > frighten [verb (transitive)]
gastOE
eisieOE
fearc1000
scarec1175
fray14..
doubtc1315
fright1423
flightc1571
to curdle the blood1579
effray1588
hare1656
pavefy1656
frighten1666
sob1671
haze1677
funk1789
gliff1823
frecken1847
to scare a person silly1942
OE Cynewulf Juliana 17 Feondscype rærdon, hofon hæþengield, halge cwelmdon, breotun boccræftge, bærndon gecorene, gæston godes cempan gare ond lige.
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 370) (1850) 4 Kings xxii. 19 Thi herte is gaastyde [a1425 L.V. aferd], and thou ert meeked beforn the Lord.
c1390 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Vernon) (1867) A. vii. 129 To..Gaste Crowen from his corn.
c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) i. l. 1648 Sche [sc. Medea] coude make it reyne..And gasten men with sodein erthe-quave.
a1500 ( J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. (Rawl.) (1898) 215 Thou shalte haue many rynnynge engyns to make horribill Sownes to gasten thyn enemys.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 560/2 I gaste hym as sore as he was these twelve monethes.
1592 J. Stow Annales anno 1586 . 1228 These men..were..so ghasted with feare..that they looked rather like to ghostes than men.
1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear vi. 54 Or whether gasted by the noyse I made, but sodainly he fled.
1616 J. Lane Contin. Squire's Tale ix. 413 (note) So Pirrus lookes in Argos gastes his ffoes.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2020).

gastv.2

Etymology: ? < Old French gaster, guaster, waster: see waste v. (But compare quot. OE at gast v.1)
Obsolete.
transitive. ? To ruin, spoil.
ΚΠ
a1350 in G. L. Brook Harley Lyrics (1968) 62 Whet helpeþ þe, my suete lemmon, my lyf þus forte gaste?
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