单词 | kernaugh |
释义 | † kernaughn. Obsolete. rare. An Irish (or Highland) kern. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > [noun] > person > specifically Irish kernaugh1535 kern1589 shanty Irishman1934 1535 in State Papers Henry VIII (1834) II. 242 He was inforced to leue horses, and goo to woodes, as a kernaugh. 1556 Act 3 & 4 Phil. & Mary in R. Bolton Statutes Ireland (1621) 255 No cottier nor labouring man in husbandry nor horseboy, nor kernaugh shall not buy any horse. 1822 D. Stewart Sketches Highlanders Scotl. I. i. iv. 38 There was a peculiar class called Cearnachs... Some of these cearnachs died in my remembrance. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1535 |
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