单词 | headwark |
释义 | headwarkn. Now English regional (chiefly northern). 1. Pain in the head; a headache. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > pain in specific parts > [noun] > in head headwarkeOE headacheOE headachinga1400 sodac1540 sood1547 a sore (Sc. sair) headc1550 raging1561 cephalalgy1607 head1783 splitter1860 headachiness1862 eOE Bald's Leechbk. (Royal) (1865) i. i. 18 Wið heafodwærce genim rudan. OE Harley Gloss. (1966) 72 Cephalia, i. dolor capitis, uel cephalargia, heafodwærc uel ece. OE tr. Medicina de Quadrupedibus (Vitell.) i. 236 Gif hwa sy on heafodwræce [?a1200 Harl. 6258B heafodwræce, L. capitis dolore], æfter bæþe smyre mid on þrim nyhtum. Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 232 Heedwarke sufferere. ?c1450 in Anglia (1896) 18 295 All hys hedwerk awey xal synke. ?c1475 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 15562) f. 62 Hedwarke, cephalia, cephalargia. c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 29 Caterris, hede verkis, ande indegestione. a1586 King Hart l. 879 in W. A. Craigie Maitland Folio MS (1919) I. 282 Heidwerk hoist and parlasy. 1629 Z. Boyd Balme of Gilead ii. 59 The sickenesse..is not some light trouble, a tooth ache, or an head-worke; as wee say, but a deadly disease. 1788 W. Marshall Provincialisms E. Yorks. in Rural Econ. Yorks. II. 363 To Wark, to ache: hence ‘head-wark’—‘teeth-wark’; head-ache—tooth-ache. 1806 G. Chalmers in D. Lyndsay Poet. Wks. III. Gloss. 376 Head-werk, the head-ache, in Lancashire, and the N. of England. 1862 B. Brierley Tales & Sketches Lancs. Life 97 Beside, th' wife ud gettin th' tooth-wartch an' th' yed-wartch, an' th' thunner-feyver. 1878 ‘H. Haldane’ Geordy's Last 9 He's rubbin't up wiv a nutmeg grater, an sellin bits ont for a penny to cure heed wark, teuth wark, belly wark, [etc.]. 1884 W. Cudworth Yorks. Dial. Sketches 9 When I gate up with a heead-wark shoo stopped at home. a1919 W. B. Kendall Forness Word Bk. (Cumbria County Archives, Barrow) (transcript of MS) Heead wark, headache. 1963 H. Orton & W. J. Halliday Surv. Eng. Dial. I. ii. 589 Q[uestion]. When you don't feel too well here [sc. the head], what do you say you've got?.. [Northumberland, Durham, etc.] Headwark. 2. Chiefly English regional. The common field poppy, Papaver rhoeas; = headache n. 2. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > poppy and allied flowers > poppy poppyeOE wild poppya1300 red poppya1400 mecop1480 corn-rose1527 field poppy1597 redweed1609 darnel1612 cockrose?1632 canker1640 tell-love1640 rose poppy1648 erratic poppy1661 corn poppy1671 headwark1691 cop-rose1776 headachea1825 thunderbolt1847 thunder-flower1853 Iceland poppy1870 Greenland poppy1882 1691 J. Ray N. Country Words in Coll. Eng. Words (ed. 2) 17 Coprose; Papaver rhœas; called also Head wark. 1776 W. Withering Bot. Arrangem. Veg. Great Brit. I. 315 Red Poppy. Round smooth-headed Poppy. Cop-rose. Head-wark. Corn-rose. 1836 R. Sharp Diary 22 Aug. (1997) 534 There has been an unusual quantity of poppies amongst the Corn, here popularly called Headwarks. 1870 R. C. A. Prior On Pop. Names Brit. Plants (ed. 2) 105 Headache, or Head-warke, from the effect of its odour, the red field-poppy, Papaver Rhœas. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.eOE |
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