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单词 atweel
释义

atweelphr.

Forms:

α. 1700s at well, 1700s– atweel.

β. 1700s–1800s 'tweel.

Origin: Probably formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: English wat weel.
Etymology: Probably contracted from Scots wat weel (more fully I wat weel ) ‘I know well’ < wat wot v. + weel well adv.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: aˈtweel.
Scottish.
? Contracted from wat weel = ‘wot well’; sometimes aphetized to 'tweel.
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1768 A. Ross Fortunate Shepherdess 21 (Jam.) Atweel I danc'd wi' you on your birth day.
1794 R. Burns Wks. IV 'Tweel thou know'st na' every pang Wad wring my bosom.
1816 W. Scott Antiquary III. x. 214 Atweel I wad fain tell him.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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