单词 | kiff and kin |
释义 | > as lemmaskiff and kin 5. kith and kin: originally. Country and kinsfolk (see 3); in later use, Acquaintance and kinsfolk, one's friends and relatives; in modern use often taken merely as a pleonastic phrase for Kinsfolk, relatives, family connections. (Formerly sometimes corrupted to kiff and kin.) ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > relations or kindred > [noun] > relations and friends kithc1000 thineOE kith and kin1377 lyancec1380 you and yoursa1400 peoplea1425 alliance1548 homefolk1798 α. β. 1580 T. Tusser Fiue Hundred Pointes Good Husbandrie (new ed.) f. 10 For kiffe nor for kin.1584 R. Wilson Three Ladies of London sig. Aiiv They forsake..Prince, Countrey, Religion, kiffe and kinne.a1627 T. Middleton Chast Mayd in Cheape-side (1630) iv. 47 A Mayd that's neither kiffe nor kin to me.1719 in T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth IV. 151 To visit Kiff and Kin.figurative.1851 E. B. Browning Casa Guidi Windows i. xxiii. 61 Mark the natural kiths and kins Of circumstance and office.1861 F. M. Müller Lect. Sci. Lang. iv. 156 That Greek and Latin were of the same kith and kin as the language of the black inhabitants of India.1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xv. 497 How riȝtwis men..Fer fro kitth and fro kynne yuel yclothed ȝeden. a1400 Octouian 1822 I-dryue Ywas,..From ken and kyghth. ?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) l. 23 Of saynt cuthbert kyth and kynne. 1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Miv/2 Kith, or kin, cognatio. a1796 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) II. 885 My Lady's white, my Lady's red, And kith and kin o' Cassillis' blude. 1824 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto XV xxxi. 20 Daughters, brothers, sisters, kith or kin. 1872 W. Black Strange Adventures Phaeton viii If any extra bit of comfort or kindness is wanted for their own kith and kin. < as lemmas |
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