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单词 gerish
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gerishadj.

Etymology: < gere n. + -ish suffix1.
Changeful, fitful; wild, wayward.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > inconstancy > [adjective] > capricious or whimsical
startfulmood?a1300
wildc1350
volage?a1366
gerfulc1374
geryc1386
wild-headeda1400
skittishc1412
gerish1430
shittle1440
shittle-witted1448
runningc1449
volageous1487
glaikit1488
fantasious1490
giggish1523
tickle or light of the sear?1530
fantastical1531
wayward1531
wantona1538
peevish1539
light-headed1549
humoral1573
unstaid1579
shittle-headed1580
toy-headed1581
fangled1587
humorous1589
choiceful1591
toyish1598
tricksy1598
skip-brain1603
capricious1605
humoursome1607
planetary1607
vertiginous1609
whimsieda1625
ingiddied1628
whimsy1637
toysome1638
cocklec1640
mercurial1647
garish1650
maggoty1650
kicksey-winseya1652
freakish1653
humourish1653
planetic1653
whimsical1653
shittle-braineda1655
freaking1663
maggoty-headed1667
maggot-pated1681
hoity-toity1690
maggotish1693
maggot-headeda1695
whimsy-headed1699
fantasque1701
crotchetly1702
quixotic1718
volatile1719
holloweda1734
conundrumical1743
flighty1768
fly-away1775
dizzy1780
whimmy1785
shy1787
whimming1787
quirky1789
notional1791
tricksome1815
vagarish1819
freakful1820
faddy1824
moodish1827
mawky1837
erratic1841
rockety1843
quirkish1848
maggoty-pated1850
crotchetya1854
freaksome1854
faddish1855
vagrom1882
fantasied1883
vagarisome1883
on-and-offish1888
tricksical1889
freaky1891
hobby-horsical1893
quirksome1896
temperamental1907
up and down1960
untogether1969
fanciful-
fantastic-
1430–40 J. Lydgate tr. Bochas Fall of Princes vi. i. 53 And as a swalowe gerissh of hir flight Twene sloughth & swyft nowe croked nowe vpright.
c1430 J. Lydgate Minor Poems (Percy Soc.) 243 In gerysshe Marche toward the ariete.
c1430 J. Lydgate Minor Poems (Percy Soc.) 245 Now gerysshe glad, and anoon aftir wrothe.
c1430 J. Lydgate Minor Poems (Percy Soc.) 254 The sesoun of my yeerys greene..The gerisshe sesoun, straunge of condiciouns, Dispoosyd to many unbridlyd passiouns.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 312/2 Gerysshe wylde or lyght heeded, farouche.
1547 A. Borde Breuiary of Helthe ii. f. xv Madnesse that doth infest a man ones in a mone the which doth cause one to be geryshe, and wauerynge wytted, nat constant, but fantastical.

Derivatives

ˈgerishness n. Obsolete wildness, waywardness.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > inconstancy > [noun] > capriciousness
giddinessa1290
lightnessc1384
gerishnessa1513
fantasticnessc1550
unstaidnessa1557
fantasticalness1583
triflingnessa1586
spleen1598
capriciousness1607
skittishness1607
humorousness1611
wavinga1628
volageness1633
arbitrariness1643
garishness1649
legerity1652
mercury1653
volatility1655
caprich1656
humoursomeness1662
hoity-toity1668
jollity1670
unaccountableness1676
freak1678
whimsya1680
featheriness1689
toysomeness1697
caprice1711
whimsicalness1715
flirtation1718
whima1721
flightiness1747
whimsicality1761
giggishness1781
fancifulness1818
hoity-toityness1820
whifflery1835
crotchetiness1837
quirkiness1870
faddishness1884
faddism1885
vagarity1886
erraticism1889
whimsiness1909
a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. Prol. f. iii Of Walys Geryshnesse and of theyr lyght dotage.
1583 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Deuteronomie xiii. 75 As for this diuelish geerishnesse which the wicked haue to ouerthrowe Gods Children withall.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2020).
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