单词 | leep |
释义 | leepv.1 Scottish (now chiefly northern) and English regional (northern). transitive. To heat slightly, to parboil. Also: to scald. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > cooking > cook [verb (transitive)] > boil > boil partially or gently parboil1381 leepa1522 coddle1616 the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > heat or make hot [verb (transitive)] > make lukewarm lukea1400 dollc1440 leepa1522 tepefy1656 chilla1825 a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1959) viii. Prol. 82 Sum latyt latton, but lay, lepys in lawyd lyt. 1589–90 in M. Wood & R. K. Hannay Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1927) V. 340 The gryte dissait..usit upoun the geis brocht to the mercatt..to sell to caus thame to appear to be fatt and publeist be leiping or setting of thame in hett watter. 1633 in P. H. Brown Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1904) 2nd Ser. V. 544 The water quharin the bait was to be leipit. 1710 T. Ruddiman in G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneis (new ed.) Gloss. We say that a thing is leeped, that is heated a little, or put into boyling water or such like for a little time. 1806 R. Jamieson Pop. Ballads II. 239 Syne put the burn untill the gleed, And leepit the een out o' his head. 1893 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words 447 To leep meat is to boil so as to preserve it. 1899 J. Allan Cracks wi' Flutorm ii. 37 The sheelins o' the groat were leep't, Made sowen kale for weeks. 1939 P. W. Miller in Sc. National Dict. (1965) VI. 39/2 [Caithness] To leep: to scald milk-dishes, etc., to pour boiling water over a slaughtered pig in order to remove the bristles. 1979 J. J. Graham Shetland Dict. 47/1 We wir wint ta leep lempits for bait for piltocks. 1991 I. Sutherland Caithness Dict. Leep, to soak (usu in warm water). This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). leepv.2 Anglo-Indian. transitive. To wash with cow-dung and water. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > wash [verb (transitive)] > wash with lye lye1805 leep1895 1895 R. Kipling Second Jungle Bk. 80 The big wicker-chest, leeped with cow-dung. 1920 Blackwood's Mag. Oct. 464/1 As you smell the fresh leeped earth of the picquet floor. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1a1522v.21895 |
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