| 单词 | a wheen |
| 释义 | > as lemmasa wheen (of) 2. a wheen (of), a few: (in later use also) = a ‘good few’, a fair number. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > plurality > fewness > [noun] > a small number of some fewOE puckleOE a litec1290 couple1365 a…or twoa1400 handfulc1443 a wheen (of)1487 and odd1548 sprinkling1561 pair1611 scattering1628 sprinkle1754 the world > relative properties > number > plurality > great number, numerousness > [noun] > a large number or multitude sandc825 thousandc1000 un-i-rimeOE legiona1325 fernc1325 multitudec1350 hundred1362 abundancec1384 quantityc1390 sight1390 felec1394 manyheada1400 lastc1405 sortc1475 infinityc1480 multiplie1488 numbers1488 power1489 many1525 flock1535 heapa1547 multitudine1547 sort1548 myriads1555 myriads1559 infinite1563 tot-quot1565 dickera1586 multiplea1595 troop1596 multitudes1598 myriad1611 sea-sands1656 plurality1657 a vast many1695 dozen1734 a good few1756 nation1762 vast1793 a wheen (of)1814 swad1828 lot1833 tribe1833 slew1839 such a many1841 right smart1842 a million and one1856 horde1860 a good several1865 sheaf1865 a (bad, good, etc.) sortc1869 immense1872 dunnamuch1875 telephone number1880 umpty1905 dunnamany1906 skit1913 umpteen1919 zillion1922 gang1928 scrillion1935 jillion1942 900 number1977 gazillion1978 fuckload1984 1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) viii. 368 The king..With a quheyn [1489 Adv. quhone] lik poueralȝe, Vencust him vith a gret menȝe. 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid iii. vi. 45 Of mony wordis, schortlie, a quhene sall I Declair. 1680 in Proc. Soc. Antiquaries Scotl. 45 237 A wheen of..canny wise professors. 1680 in Proc. Soc. Antiquaries Scotl. 45 241 A whin knaves. 1682 A. Peden Lord's Trumpet Sounding 20 O sirs! Christ had a whein noble worthies in Scotland. 1814 W. Scott Waverley III. xvii. 257 What use has my father for a whin bits o' scarted paper? View more context for this quotation 1816 W. Scott Antiquary II. ix. 246 There will be a wheen idle gowks coming to stare at the hole as lang as it is day-light. 1886 R. L. Stevenson Kidnapped iii. 23 I wouldnae like the Balfours to be humbled before a wheen Hieland Campbells. 1901 ‘G. Douglas’ House with Green Shutters 71 ‘Have the carriers a big load?’ ‘Andy has just a wheen parcels, but Elshie's as fu' as he can haud.’ a wheen 3. a wheen as adverbial phr.: A little, somewhat. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > smallness of quantity, amount, or degree > small of quantity, amount, or degree [phrase] > to a small extent or a little littlec1175 a litec1290 a little quantityc1330 little whata1387 wee1513 a whit1526 thought1581 a wee bita1661 a small (also little) matter1690 a trifle1859 a wheen1869 a taste1894 smitch1895 a lick1902 mite1939 a skosh1959 a tidge1959 a tad1969 1869 C. Gibbon Robin Gray x The auld wife's a wheen better. < as lemmas |
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