单词 | kailyard |
释义 | kailyardn. Scottish. 1. A cabbage-garden, kitchen-garden, such as is commonly attached to a small cottage. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > garden > [noun] > kitchen- or herb-garden wortyardOE kitchen garden1376 calgarth14.. pot garden1511 herbary1625 potagera1684 plantiequoy1686 potagerie1693 olitory1706 yard1718 kailyard1725 vegetable garden1756 plantiecrue1806 cabbage patch1810 cole-garth1865 victory garden1942 1725 A. Ramsay Gentle Shepherd ii. iii A green kail-yaird. 1754 E. Burt Lett. N. Scotl. I. ii. 33 A fit Enclosure for a Cale-Yard, i.e. a little Garden for Coleworts. a1805 A. Carlyle Autobiogr. (1860) xiii. 473 Trees..planted in every kailyard, as their little gardens are called. 1816 W. Scott Old Mortality ix, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. IV. 180 What comes o' our ain bit free-house, and the kale-yard, and the cow's grass? 1894 L. B. Walford Ploughed 42 The little rough gravelled approach and kail-yard. 2. Used with reference to a class of recent fiction, affecting to describe, with much use of the vernacular, common life in Scotland; hence attributive as Kailyard School, a collective term for the writers of such novels or sketches; kailyard dialect, kailyard vocabulary. [The appellation is taken from the Scottish Jacobite song ‘There grows a bonnie brier bush in our kailyard’, from which ‘Ian Maclaren’ took the title of the series of short stories ‘Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush’ (1894), which was an early and popular example of this school of writing.] ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > [adjective] > other specific style judicial1532 heroic1590 judiciary1603 wild1645 heroi-comic1708 mock-heroic1708 heroi-comical1712 flebilea1734 prosai-comi-epic1749 lusory1779 sulphureous1791 harlequinic1804 mock-heroical1825 newspaperish1825 marmoreal1892 kailyard1895 freestyle1906 paperback1921 nouny1926 Time-ese1947 nounal1952 kitchen sink1959 effectist1961 writerly1974 dirty realist1984 1895 J. H. Millar Lit. of Kailyard in New Rev. Apr. 384 Mr. J. M. Barrie is fairly entitled to look upon himself as pars magna, if not pars maxima, of the Great Kailyard Movement. 1895 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. June Those romances in dialect, very fitly and cleverly called the Literature of the Kailyard by a recent critic. 1896 Dundee Advertiser 1 Aug. Having been assured by many critics that the Kailyard School is quite photographic in its reproduction of Scottish life and character. 1900 Athenæum 9 June 709/3 He wrote as he spoke, and his kailyard vocabulary occasionally baffles his editor. Derivatives kailˈyarder n. ΚΠ 1896 Westm. Gaz. 7 Nov. 3/2 Among its contributors lately has been..one of the minor ‘kailyairders’. 1899 Academy 7 Jan. 3/1 But Mr. Crockett is no Kailyarder in his romances. kailyardism n. ΚΠ 1899 Academy 14 Jan. 50/2 A little outburst of Kailyardism. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1725 |
随便看 |
|
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。