单词 | greeter |
释义 | greetern.1 One who greets, or salutes. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > courtesy > courteous act or expression > [noun] > greeting or salutation > one who saluter1542 greeter1552 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Greter or brynger of a gretynge, salutiger. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Saluëur, a saluter, a greeter. 1780 F. Burney Let. May in Early Jrnls. & Lett. (2003) IV. 114 She was used to be my constant Elbow Companion, & most smiling Greeter. 1853 E. S. Sheppard Charles Auchester II. 116 Only half the students had returned, and they..were standing in self-interested fraternities, broken by groups and greeters. 1868 Daily News 6 July The outbursts of cheering that would have greeted him if the greeters had not been [etc.]. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022). greetern.2 Scottish. One who ‘greets’ or cries. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > weeping > [noun] > weeper weeperc1380 beweepera1425 weeping1482 well1609 lachrymist1620 greeter17.. blubberer1786 blubber1832 crier1892 17.. Young Ronald xvii, in F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads (1894) V. ix. 183 I've heard greeters at your school-house..But for to hear an auld man greet, It passes bairns' play. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.11552n.217.. |
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