单词 | hurkle |
释义 | hurklev. Now dialect. 1. intransitive. To draw the limbs and parts of the body closely together, esp. with pain or cold; to contract the body like a beast in a storm; to cower, crouch, squat; to shrink, shudder. Said also of the limbs: To be contracted or drawn together. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > posture > action of crouching or squatting > crouch or squat [verb (intransitive)] ruck?c1225 cowerc1300 crouchc1394 couch?a1400 hurklea1400 quatc1425 squat1573 squat1609 thigh1611 swat1615 hunker1720 lower1720 squattle1786 croodle1788 scrooch1844 a1400–50 Alexander 504 A litill brid, in-to his arme floȝe, And þar hurkils and hydis as scho were hand-tame. c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness l. 406 Cubites fyftene Ouer þe hyȝest hylle þat hurkled on erþe. c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness l. 150 Þat oþer burne watz abayst of his broþe wordez & hurkelez doun with his hede. 1486 Bk. St. Albans E viij a The haare..hurcles vppon hir houghis ay. 1607 T. Walkington Optick Glasse xiii. 135 Hurckling with his heade to his shouldiers. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Enchafouiné,..one that, through cold, hurkles like a cat. 1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant iii. 78 Sometimes she hurkled down upon her Heels, nay, and sat down. a1790 Song in Scot. Ballads (1790) II. 47 While I set hurklen in the ase. 1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel II. 23 The hare..'Hind the dead thistle hurkles from the view. 1881 S. Evans Evans's Leicestershire Words (new ed.) Hircle, to crouch; contract the body; nestle up close. 1883 T. Lees Easther's Gloss. Dial. Almondbury & Huddersfield Hurcle, to cower down, to squat..In some parts the word is hurple, or hirple. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > egg > [verb (transitive)] > brood over hove1399 broodc1440 cover1607 hurkle1640 hover1789 1640 G. Abbot Whole Bk. Iob Paraphr. xxxix. 249/1 Covering them [sc. eggs] with a little sand or dust to cause them keepe their naturall heate, in stead of hatching and hurkling them. Derivatives ˈhurkled adj. contracted or drawn together, bowed together. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > posture > action of crouching or squatting > [adjective] quatc1425 hurkling?a1513 hurkled1567 squat1582 crouchanta1593 crouching1600 couchant1693 squatted1818 squatting1871 scrooched1885 1567 Compend. Bk. Godly Songs (1897) 105 With hurklit hude ouer a weill nureist neck. 1863 Mrs. Toogood Specim. Yorks. Dial. Fetch the cattle up. They look hurkled. ˈhurkling adj. contracting, crouching. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > posture > action of crouching or squatting > [adjective] quatc1425 hurkling?a1513 hurkled1567 squat1582 crouchanta1593 crouching1600 couchant1693 squatted1818 squatting1871 scrooched1885 a1513 W. Dunbar Flyting in Poems (1998) I. 206 With hurkland banis holkand throw thy hyd. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.a1400 |
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