| 单词 | going body |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgoing body f. Scottish. Usually in form gaun. Vagrant; habitually moving about from place to place, esp. as a tramp or itinerant pedlar. Esp. in going body, going man. Cf. going-about adj. Now rare. Sc. National Dict. (at Gae) records gaun bodie as still in use in south-central Scotland in 1953. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [adjective] > with no fixed aim or wandering > as a vagabond or tramp vagrant1461 loiteringa1533 way-walkinga1535 roguing1566 roguish1572 vagabondical1576 vagabond1585 vagabondinga1586 land-loping1587 vagrom1600 leap-land1614 vagabondial1615 vaguea1627 gangrel1650 vagabondious1661 going1737 gang-there-out1815 tramping1828 vagabondizing1830 pikey1838 beachcombing1845 runagate1877 going-about1886 bummy1890 1737 A. Ramsay Coll. Scots Prov. xii. 21 Give a gawn Man a Drink, and a quarrelsome Chiel a Cuff. 1868 Sharpe's London Mag. Jan. 201/1 We were aye gled to see a gaun body, ye ken; for they broucht word o' what was gaun on in the low country. 1875 Border Treasury 24 Apr. 443 Is he a decent-lookin man?.. He's nae gaun body, is he? 1904 J. F. Cannon Whithorn 59 One forenoon a ‘gaun man’ called at her house. 1982 Recorded Interview (Univ. Edinb.: School of Sc. Stud. Sound Archive) (SA1982.70) (MS transcript) The man that trained him used to live in the bothy... Gaun body. < as lemmas |
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