单词 | antrin |
释义 | antrinadj. Scottish and English regional (Northumberland). 1. Occasional, odd, chance. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > chance or causelessness > [adjective] byc1050 casualc1374 fortuitc1374 fortunelc1374 fortunousc1374 causelessc1386 adventurousc1405 accidental1502 fortunable1509 happya1522 chanceable1549 occasional1569 accidentary1581 emergent1593 streave1598 contingent1604 happening1621 incidental1644 lucky1648 sporadical1654 temerarious1660 spontaneous1664 incidentarya1670 chance1676 antrin?1725 fortuitous1806 sporadic1821 windfall1845 chanced1853 blind1873 happenchance1905 happenstance1905 ?1725 A. Pennecuik Old-Reekie's Acclamation (single sheet) Before a Client come 'twill be a Moon, Save now and then an antrin Peuther Spoon. 1773 R. Fergusson Auld Reikie in Poems (1954) II. 110 The Barefoot Housemaids looe to stand, That antrin Fock may ken how Snell Auld Reikie will at Morning Smell. 1838 J. Struthers Poetic Tales 49 A little garden soon was his, Wi' mony a fruit and flower; The lightly are o' leisure start, Spar'd frae an antrin hour. 1894 A. S. Robertson Provost o' Glendookie 160 Except at antern times (occasionally), I haena kenned him going to the kirk. 1916 J. J. H. Burgess Rasmie's Smaa Murr 2 Aug. At antrin times, even aeditors can mak a mistak. 1981 Eng. World-Wide 2 6 Lowland Scots—Lallans—is aa verra weill for an antrin wordie or twa. 1997 C. De Luca Wast wi da Valkyries 35 I reeselled me wye, truckin da ruckly strae, an antrin flooer. 2. Peculiar, strange, singular. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > disorder > irregularity > unconformity > abnormality > [adjective] > odd quaintc1325 awkc1440 queer?a1513 odd1578 quaintish1594 odd-conceiteda1616 odd-ceited1652 whimsical1675 singulara1684 eccentric1685 oddish1705 rummish1709 comical1713 odd-like1718 rum1750 queerish1775 funny1793 quare1805 rummy1828 kinky1844 quirkish1848 quirky1873 odd-gates1906 funny-peculiar1916 antrin1925 off-brand1929 fanciful- 1925 ‘H. MacDiarmid’ Sangschaw 2 I saw yon antrin thing, A watergaw wi' its chitterin' licht. 1934 ‘L. G. Gibbon’ Grey Granite ii. 77 An antrin magic that bound you in one with the mind, not only the body of a man, with his dreams and desires, his loves, even hates. ?2002 I. W. D. Forde Hale ir Sindries ii. vi. 160 Mirren pit anither nicht's drames atwein hirsell an the antrin aventurs at shae feired wesna yit feinist. 2003 D. Paterson Landing Light 57 It's still sic an antrin baste I anely find it in dwam or dream. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.?1725 |
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