单词 | jock fool |
释义 | > as lemmasJock Fool Scottish. Prefixed to a noun or adjective to form a nickname or generic name for a person representing, embodying, or associated with the second element, as Jock Blunt, Jock Fool, etc. Cf. equivalent compounds at Jack n.2 Compounds 1b. Now rare. ΚΠ ?1507 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 91 To Iok Fule my foly fre Lego post corpus sepultum. a1585 P. Hume Flyting with Montgomerie (Tullibardine) ix. 58 in Poems A. Montgomerie (2000) I. 173 Iok Blunt, thrawin frunt, kis þe cunt of ane kow. a1598 D. Fergusson Sc. Prov. (1641) sig. E3 Speir at Jock thief my marrow, if I be a leal man. 1737 A. Ramsay Coll. Scots Prov. viii. 14 Come a' to Jock Fool's House and ye'se get Bread and Cheese. 1852 A. Christie Mountain Strains 88 I see Jock Hack has got a Miss. 1871 W. Alexander Johnny Gibb xxxiii. 234 Na, na, Archie..fat wye cud a leddy ken a Jock Muck like you? 1933 ‘L. G. Gibbon’ Cloud Howe ii. 122 Lairds, ladies or plain Jock Muck at the Mains. < as lemmas |
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