| 单词 | good-woolled one |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgood-woolled one 2. Chiefly English regional (Lincolnshire). Usually of a person: excellent, outstanding, first-rate; spec. plucky, spirited, game. Now also: wealthy. Frequently in good-woolled one. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > courage > spirit > [adjective] braga1350 animose?a1425 heartlya1450 stomachous1547 bold-spirited1597 mettled1599 mettle1606 animous1609 stomachful1610 stomachious1611 brave-spiriteda1617 mettlesome1673 game1752 spunky1786 spunk1788 gamelike1804 good-woolled1846 plucked1846 bold-hearted1847 gamey1849 gameful1853 gutsy1893 feisty1896 gutty1953 1846 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words I. (at cited word) A good-woolled one, i.e., a capital good fellow. Linc. 1863 E. Farmer Scrap Bk. (ed. 3) 28 Around us are living ‘good woolled uns’ [sc. farmers] by droves. 1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. Good-woolled. (1) Said of Sheep with good fleeces. (2) Plucky, with a good will. ‘He's a good-wool'd un; one o' that sort as nivver knaws when he's bet’. a1900 J. P. Kirk in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1900) II. 678/2 [Notts.] Yer mun be a good-woolled un to faight like that. 1995 J. M. Sims-Kimbrey Wodds & Doggerybaw: Lincs. Dial. Dict. 124/1 Good-woolled, excellent... ‘Good-woolled, that. Grand job it is.’ 1995 J. M. Sims-Kimbrey Wodds & Doggerybaw: Lincs. Dial. Dict. 124/1 Good-woolled-man, wealthy man; but also ‘a smashing chap’. < as lemmas |
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