单词 | grimalkin |
释义 | grimalkinn. A name given to a cat; hence, a cat, esp. an old she-cat; contemptuously applied to a jealous or imperious old woman. In quot. a1616 used as the name of a fiend. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Felidae (feline) > felis domesticus (cat) > [noun] cata800 bad?a1325 gibc1400 baudrons?a1500 house cat?1527 puss-cata1529 puss1533 puss1598 mewer1611 mewler1611 Tibert1616 malkina1627 grimalkin1630 meower1632 miauler1632 pussycat1698 pussy1699 tigerkin1849 moggie1911 pussums1912 mog1926 the world > people > person > old person > old woman > [noun] old wifeeOE old womanOE trota1375 carlinec1375 cronec1386 vecke1390 monea1393 hagc1400 ribibec1405 aunt?a1425 crate14.. witchc1475 mauda1500 mackabroine1546 grandam?1550 grannam1565 old lady1575 beldam1580 lucky1629 granny1634 patriarchess1639 runta1652 harridan1699 grimalkin1798 mama1810 tante1815 wifie1823 maw1826 old dear1836 tante1845 Mother Bunch1847 douairière1869 dowager1870 veteraness1880 old trout1897 tab1909 bag1924 crow1925 ma1932 Skinny Liz1940 old bag1947 old boot1958 tannie1958 LOL1960 a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) i. i. 8 I come, Gray-Malkin! View more context for this quotation] 1630 J. Taylor Wks. ii. 114/1 Like Grimalkin Or a kinde needfull Vermin-coursing Cat. 1630 J. Taylor Wks. ii. 226/2 I list not write the bable praise Of Apes, or Owles, or Popinjaies Or of the Cat Grimalkin. 1703 J. Philips Splendid Shilling 74 Grimalkin to Domestic Vermine sworn An everlasting Foe. 1709 M. Prior When Cat is Away 18 Grimalkin far all cats outshone. 1776 G. White Let. 9 May in Nat. Hist. Selborne (1789) 215 That a poor little sucking leveret should be fostered..by a bloody grimalkin. 1798 C. Smith Young Philosopher III. 15 The venerable old grimalkin had taken Louisa with her, and accompanied the married folks into Suffolk. 1826 B. Disraeli Vivian Grey I. ii. xvi. 238 Like veritable Grimalkins, they [sc. the Toadeys] fawn upon their victims previous to the festival. 1843 G. Borrow Bible in Spain I. x. 183 Growling to herself, something after the manner of an old grimalkin when disturbed. Derivatives griˈmalkined adj. vexed by a ‘grimalkin’.Apparently an isolated use. ΚΠ 1756 World 22 July 1109 I am not henpecked; I am not grimalkined; I have no Mrs. Freeman with her Italian airs; but I have a wife more troublesome than all three. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online September 2019). < n.1630 |
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