单词 | haet |
释义 | haetn. Scottish and Irish English (northern). 1. a. devil (also fiend) a (also the) haet: not a whit, nothing at all. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > smallness of quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > no part of something nothingOE never-a-deala1325 devil a haet1721 1721 in T. Craig-Brown Hist. Selkirk (1886) II. 101 Deil a haid care I for session or Presbytery. 1829 J. Hogg Shepherd's Cal. II. i. 13 Then the Foumart, he sits knitting his stocking, and quarrelling wi' the haill o' them. The feint a haed he minds but sheer ill nature. 1893 T. Stewart Among Miners 85 Feint the haet we'd wi' us, (Except the sack we meant tae pack Wi' game). a1930 N. Munro Roses, Roses, all the Way in B. D. Osborne & R. Armstrong Erchie & Jimmy Swan (1993) ii. xxix. 446 Devil the haet would tickle Dimister; he had nae mair sense o' humour than a jyle door. 1987 B. Holton tr. S. Nai'an Men o the Mossflow Prol. in Sc. Corpus Texts & Speech He can munt the mists an sclim the clouds an there'll be fient the haet o him ti be fund. 1987 D. Williamson & L. Williamson Thorn in King's Foot 174 Devil a haet's gaunna come o hus. b. damn the haet (formerly also †damned haet): nothing at all. Cf. damn all n. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > non-existence > [noun] > nothing > nothing at all noughtOE neither tip nor toe1610 nix1781 damn the haet1787 no nothing1815 zero1823 all1842 neither hide nor hair1857 zip1900 nixie1906 damn all1910 fuck-all1916 Fanny Adams1919 bugger-all1921 S.F.A.1933 not a sausage1938 shit1949 zilch1956 eff-all1958 sod all1958 diddly-squat1963 diddly1964 jack-all1965 niente1969 zippo1973 feck-all1975 hee-haw1975 naff all1977 jack squat1986 1787 R. Burns Death & Dr. Hornbook xv, in Poems (new ed.) 60 D––n'd haet they'll kill! 1939 J. Barke Land of Leal ii. 120 There's nothing soft about him—damn the hate—but sensitive-like, if you understand me. a1995 T. Kelly Twice Roun' Glen in www.semple.biz (O.E.D. Archive 2016) But damn the haet care I for Stirlin' A tell ye a' ma heid was birlin'. 2. Chiefly in negative contexts: a whit, a jot; the least thing; a small quantity. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > smallness of quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > a small quantity or amount > the smallest amount > a jot cornc888 grotc888 prickleOE prickOE pointc1300 grain1377 hair1377 motec1390 twynt1399 mitec1400 tarec1405 drop1413 ace?1440 tittlea1450 whita1450 jot1526 Jack1530 plack1530 farthingc1540 minima1585 scintil1599 atom1626 scintillation1650 punct1653 doit1660 scintilla1674 rap1792 haet1802 dottle1808 smiggot1823 hooter1839 heartbeat1855 pick1866 filament1868 hoot1878 1802 S. Kerr Poems 93 My Pills cost naething but the makin! Ne'er haet are they but flour an' blakin! 1889 H. M. B. Reid Galloway Folk 69 Bide a wee or I pit a haet o' polish on them. 1956 S. H. Bell Erin's Orange Lily vi. 92 The patient would be roaring and shouting with the pain, but the band kept blattering away all the time and not a haet of his hullabaloo would you hear! 1987 J. A. McArdle Sin Embargo 234 This doesn't have a hate to do with independence. 2001 J. McGowan Echoes Savage Land (2006) xi. 335 ‘Why wouldn't ye? Isn't the other knee the same age as this one an' there's not a hate wrong with it?’ This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1721 |
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