| 单词 | high-kilted |
| 释义 | > as lemmashigh-kilted high-kilted adj. chiefly Scottish (of a woman) wearing one's skirt tucked up; (figurative) indecorous, immodest. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [adjective] > wearing clothes tucked up kilted1724 high-kilteda1792 tucked up1845 a1792 in R. H. Cromek Reliques R. Burns (1808) 200 High kilted was she, the coat aboon her knee. 1809 W. Scott in Q. Rev. 1 22 In one or two passages the muse may have slightly trespassed upon decorum, where in the language of Scottish song, ‘High kilted was she, As she gaed ou're the lea’. 1810 A. Cunningham et al. Remains Nithsdale & Galloway Song 13 She is a gude, sonsie, sweet an' kindlie quean; and tho' she may gang a wee thing ‘high kilted’ at times, she's gawcie an' modest for a' that. 1824 W. Scott Redgauntlet I. v. 87 Who..had been carried home, in compassion, by some high-kilted fish-wife. 1840 T. Hood Miss Kilmansegg ii, in New Monthly Mag. 60 257 To dazzle the world with the precious limb,—Nay, to go a little high-kilted. 1914 N. Munro New Road xiv The river where some girls, high-kilted to the thighs, were posting blankets. 2012 E. Stewart Up Yon Wide & Lonely Glen 318 (notes) It also has a distinctly ‘high kilted’ flavour as shown in the first verse. < as lemmas |
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