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单词 hurkle
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hurklev.

/ˈhəːk(ə)l/
Forms: Middle English hurkel, Middle English hurkil, hurcle, 1500s– hurkle, (1500s hirkle, hurkul, 1600s hurckle, 1800s dialect hircle). β. 1700s–1800s dialect hurple, hirple, hurtle.
Etymology: apparently closely related to Middle Low German, Low German, and Dutch hurken to squat, held by Dutch etymologists to be an intensive formation with -k suffix from Middle High German hûren , dialect German hauern , hûren to squat, sit bowed together; compare also Frisian horcken ‘contrahere membra ut calefiant’. The English verb has an additional diminutive or intensive suffix -le . The dialect forms in β appear to be phonetic variants; yet those in hurp- , hirp- suggest connection with Old Norse herpa-st to be contracted with cramp: see hirpled adj.
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.
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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.
β. 1788 W. Marshall Provincialisms E. Yorks. in Rural Econ. Yorks. II. 336 Hurple, to stick up the back, as cattle under a hedge in cold weather.1811 R. Willan List Words W. Riding Yorks. (E.D.S.) Hurtle, to contract the body into a round form, as through pain, severe cold, etc.1868 J. C. Atkinson Gloss. Cleveland Dial. Hirple, to shrug or stick up the back as an animal does in inclement weather when standing under a hedge... Written also Hurple, hurkle, hurtle.
2. transitive. To crouch down upon; to brood over. Obsolete. rare.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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