limmern.adj.

Brit.

/ˈlɪmə/, U.S.

/ˈlɪmər/, Scottish English

/ˈlɪmər/

Forms: Also Middle English lymmare, 1500s lymare, lymer, lymmar, 1500s–1600s limmar, lymber, lymmer.

Etymology: Of obscure origin; connection with limb n.¹ is possible.

Scottish and northern dialect.

A. n.

†1. A rogue, scoundrel. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > roguery > rogue > [noun]

harlot?c1225

truantc1290

shreward1297

boyc1300

lidderon13..

cokinc1330

pautenerc1330

bribera1387

bricouna1400

losarda1400

rascal?a1400

custronc1400

knapea1450

sloven?a1475

limmerc1485

knavatec1506

smaik?1507

smy?1507

koken?a1513

swinger1513

Cock Lorel?1518

pedlar's French1530

varletc1540

losthope?c1550

makeshift1554

wild rogue1567

miligant1568

rogue1568

crack-halter1573

rascallion1582

schelm1584

scoundrel1589

scaba1592

bezonian1592

slave1592

rampallion1593

Scanderbeg1601

roly-poly1602

canter1608

cantler1611

gue1612

fraudsman1613

Cathayana1616

crack-hempa1616

foiterer1616

tilt1620

picaro1622

picaroon1629

sheepmanc1640

rapscallion1648

scaramouch1677

fripon1691

trickster1711

shake-bag1794

sinner1809

cad1838

badmash1843

scattermouch1892

jazzbo1914

the mind > emotion > pride > impudence > [noun] > impudent person > girl or woman

viragoc1386

slut?c1425

ramp?c1450

limmerc1485

rannell1573

minx?1576

Mistress Minx1576

rampant1641

hussy1647

tittup1696

skelpie-limmer1786

madam1787

society > morality > moral evil > wickedness > roguery, knavery, or rascalry > [noun] > rogue, knave, or rascal

harlot?c1225

knavec1275

truantc1290

shreward1297

boinarda1300

boyc1300

lidderon13..

cokinc1330

pautenerc1330

bribera1387

bricouna1400

losarda1400

rascal?a1400

knapea1450

lotterela1450

limmerc1485

Tutivillus1498

knavatec1506

smy?1507

koken?a1513

swinger1513

Cock Lorel?1518

pedlar's French1530

cust1535

rabiator1535

varletc1540

Jack1548

kern1556

wild rogue1567

miligant1568

rogue1568

tutiviller1568

rascallion1582

schelm1584

scoundrel1589

rampallion1593

Scanderbeg1601

scroyle1602

canter1608

cantler1611

skelm1611

gue1612

Cathayana1616

foiterer1616

tilt1620

picaro1622

picaroon1629

sheepmanc1640

rapscallion1648

marrow1656

Algerine1671

scaramouch1677

fripon1691

shake-bag1794

badling1825

tiger1827

two-for-his-heels1837

ral1846

skeezicks1850

nut1882

gun1890

scattermouch1892

tug1896

natkhat1901

jazzbo1914

scutter1940

bar steward1945

hoor1965

c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 219 Ane vnworthy lymmare, yat settis nocht for honour bot for pillery.

a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Trial of Fox l. 1076 in Poems (1981) 44 ‘Byde!’ quod the lyoun. ‘Lymmer, let vs se Giff it be suthe the selie ȝow hes said.’

c1540 J. Bellenden in tr. H. Boece Hyst. & Cron. Scotl. sig. Diij^v He causit hir to be schamfully defowlit with rebaldis & lymmaris of his cuntre.

1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1895) II. 219 Adam Scot special bordirer, and limmer, commounlie calit king of traytouris.

1602 King James VI & I Let. to Elizabeth I in Lett. (1849) 147 The repreasing of fugitiues and lymmeries [sic].

1607 Sc. Acts Jas. VI (1816) IV. 379/2 That Insolent and wicked race and name of the glengregour and notorious lymberis and malefactouris.

a1637 B. Jonson Sad Shepherd in Wks. (1640) III Fowle Limmer! drittie Louwne!

1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth iv, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. I. 104 There have been a proper set of limmers about to scale your windows, father Simon.

2. Applied to a woman: (a) a light woman; a strumpet; (b) (in weaker sense) a jade, hussy, minx.

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [noun] > sexual indulgence > unchaste behaviour of woman > unchaste or loose woman

queanOE

whorec1175

malkinc1275

wenchelc1300

ribalda1350

strumpeta1350

wench1362

filtha1375

parnelc1390

sinner14..

callet1415

slut?c1425

tickle-tailc1430

harlot?a1475

mignote1489

kittock?a1500

mulea1513

trulla1516

trully?1515

danta1529

miswoman1528

stewed whore1532

Tib1533

unchaghe1534

flag1535

Katy1535

jillet1541

yaud1545

housewife1546

trinkletc1550

whippet1550

Canace1551

filthy1553

Jezebel1558

kittyc1560

loonc1560

laced mutton1563

nymph1563

limmer1566

tomboy1566

Marian1567

mort1567

cockatrice1568

franion1571

blowze1573

rannell1573

rig1575

Kita1577

poplet1577

light-skirts1578

pucelle1578

harlotry1584

light o' lovea1586

driggle-draggle1588

wagtail1592

tub-tail1595

flirt-gill1597

minx1598

hilding1599

short-heels1599

bona-roba1600

flirt1600

Hiren1600

light-heels1602

roba1602

baggage1603

cousin1604

fricatrice1607

rumbelow1611

amorosa1615

jaya1616

open-taila1618

succubus1622

snaphancea1625

flap1631

buttered bun1638

puffkin1639

vizard1652

fallen woman1659

tomrigg1662

cunt1663

quaedama1670

jilt1672

crack1677

grass-girl1691

sporting girl1694

sportswoman1705

mobbed hood1707

brim1736

trollop1742

trub1746

demi-rep1749

gillyflower1757

lady of easy virtue1766

mot1773

chicken1782

gammerstang1788

buer1807

scarlet woman1816

blowen1819

fie-fie1820

shickster?1834

streel1842

charver1846

trolly1854

bad girl1855

amateur1862

anonyma1862

demi-virgin1864

pickup1871

chippy1885

wish-wife1886

tart1887

tartleta1890

flossy1893

fly girl1893

demi-mondaine1894

floozy1899

slattern1899

scrub1900

demi-vierge1908

cake1909

coozie1912

muff1914

tarty1918

yes-girl1920

radge1923

bike1945

puta1948

messer1951

cooze1955

jamette1965

skeezer1986

slutbag1987

chickenhead1988

ho1988

1566 in J. Raine Depositions Courts Durham (1845) 83 In causa diffamacionis, viz. that his wyf was a lymer.

1728 A. Ramsay Last Speech Miser in Poems II. viii I wore nae frizzl'd limmer's hair.

1786 R. Burns Twa Dogs xxvi, in Poems 19 Except for breakin o' their timmer, Or speakin lightly o' their Limmer.

1814 W. Scott Waverley III. xv^*. 216 Kate and Matty, the limmers, gaed aff wi' twa o' Hawley's dragoons, and I hae twa new queans instead o' them.

1851 G. Borrow Lavengro (1900) lxxxv. 460 Leave my husband in the hands of you and that limmer, who has never been true to us.

1897 S. R. Crockett Lads' Love xiii. 141 ‘Oh—the limmer—how dared she’, cried my mother, on fire instantly at the hint of an insult or rejection to her eldest son.

B. adj.

Knavish, scoundrelly.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > roguery > [adjective]

pautenerc1330

palliard1484

limmer?a1513

limmerful?a1513

slovenly?1518

knavish1552

patchingc1555

rascal1566

roguing1566

knaifatic1568

roguish1572

rascally1586

land-loping1587

Scanderbegging1593

cullionly1608

rogorous1609

loseling1624

scoundrel1643

schelmish1654

pickled1683

rapscallionly1699

scoundrelish1705

rapscallion1711

pickle1774

scoundrelly1790

picaresque1822

furciferous1823

scapegrace1830

society > morality > moral evil > wickedness > roguery, knavery, or rascalry > [adjective]

pautenerc1330

palliard1484

varletc1485

knavisha1492

limmer?a1513

limmerful?a1513

briberous?1536

patchingc1555

rascal1566

roguing1566

roguish1575

arrant1581

skybala1585

rascally1586

land-loping1587

shag-ragc1590

Scanderbegging1593

Scanderbeg1601

rogorous1609

rogueya1627

scoundrel1643

schelmish1654

skelm1673

rapscallionly1699

rapscallion1711

scoundrelly1790

furciferous1823

scapegrace1830

a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 153 With mony a lymmar loun.

1562 A. Scott Poems (1896) i. 53 For lymmer lawdis and litle lassis lo.

a1637 B. Jonson Sad Shepherd in Wks. (1640) III Hence with 'hem, limmer lowne, Thy vermin, and thy selfe, thy selfe art one.

a1785 Rookhope Ryde iv, in F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads (1889) III. vi. 439 Limmer thieves drives them away.

Derivatives

† limmerful adj. Obsolete knavish.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > roguery > [adjective]

pautenerc1330

palliard1484

limmer?a1513

limmerful?a1513

slovenly?1518

knavish1552

patchingc1555

rascal1566

roguing1566

knaifatic1568

roguish1572

rascally1586

land-loping1587

Scanderbegging1593

cullionly1608

rogorous1609

loseling1624

scoundrel1643

schelmish1654

pickled1683

rapscallionly1699

scoundrelish1705

rapscallion1711

pickle1774

scoundrelly1790

picaresque1822

furciferous1823

scapegrace1830

society > morality > moral evil > wickedness > roguery, knavery, or rascalry > [adjective]

pautenerc1330

palliard1484

varletc1485

knavisha1492

limmer?a1513

limmerful?a1513

briberous?1536

patchingc1555

rascal1566

roguing1566

roguish1575

arrant1581

skybala1585

rascally1586

land-loping1587

shag-ragc1590

Scanderbegging1593

Scanderbeg1601

rogorous1609

rogueya1627

scoundrel1643

schelmish1654

skelm1673

rapscallionly1699

rapscallion1711

scoundrelly1790

furciferous1823

scapegrace1830

a1513 W. Dunbar Flyting in Poems (1998) I. 205 Thy lymmerfull [a1586 lymmair] luke wald fle thame.

† limmery n. Obsolete knavery.

ΚΠ

1567 Compend. Bk. Godly Songs (1897) 206 The lymmerie lang hes lestit.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	limmer
释义	limmern.adj. Brit. /ˈlɪmə/, U.S. /ˈlɪmər/, Scottish English /ˈlɪmər/ Forms: Also Middle English lymmare, 1500s lymare, lymer, lymmar, 1500s–1600s limmar, lymber, lymmer. Etymology: Of obscure origin; connection with limb n.¹ is possible. Scottish and northern dialect. A. n. †1. A rogue, scoundrel. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > roguery > rogue > [noun] harlot?c1225 truantc1290 shreward1297 boyc1300 lidderon13.. cokinc1330 pautenerc1330 bribera1387 bricouna1400 losarda1400 rascal?a1400 custronc1400 knapea1450 sloven?a1475 limmerc1485 knavatec1506 smaik?1507 smy?1507 koken?a1513 swinger1513 Cock Lorel?1518 pedlar's French1530 varletc1540 losthope?c1550 makeshift1554 wild rogue1567 miligant1568 rogue1568 crack-halter1573 rascallion1582 schelm1584 scoundrel1589 scaba1592 bezonian1592 slave1592 rampallion1593 Scanderbeg1601 roly-poly1602 canter1608 cantler1611 gue1612 fraudsman1613 Cathayana1616 crack-hempa1616 foiterer1616 tilt1620 picaro1622 picaroon1629 sheepmanc1640 rapscallion1648 scaramouch1677 fripon1691 trickster1711 shake-bag1794 sinner1809 cad1838 badmash1843 scattermouch1892 jazzbo1914 the mind > emotion > pride > impudence > [noun] > impudent person > girl or woman viragoc1386 slut?c1425 ramp?c1450 limmerc1485 rannell1573 minx?1576 Mistress Minx1576 rampant1641 hussy1647 tittup1696 skelpie-limmer1786 madam1787 society > morality > moral evil > wickedness > roguery, knavery, or rascalry > [noun] > rogue, knave, or rascal harlot?c1225 knavec1275 truantc1290 shreward1297 boinarda1300 boyc1300 lidderon13.. cokinc1330 pautenerc1330 bribera1387 bricouna1400 losarda1400 rascal?a1400 knapea1450 lotterela1450 limmerc1485 Tutivillus1498 knavatec1506 smy?1507 koken?a1513 swinger1513 Cock Lorel?1518 pedlar's French1530 cust1535 rabiator1535 varletc1540 Jack1548 kern1556 wild rogue1567 miligant1568 rogue1568 tutiviller1568 rascallion1582 schelm1584 scoundrel1589 rampallion1593 Scanderbeg1601 scroyle1602 canter1608 cantler1611 skelm1611 gue1612 Cathayana1616 foiterer1616 tilt1620 picaro1622 picaroon1629 sheepmanc1640 rapscallion1648 marrow1656 Algerine1671 scaramouch1677 fripon1691 shake-bag1794 badling1825 tiger1827 two-for-his-heels1837 ral1846 skeezicks1850 nut1882 gun1890 scattermouch1892 tug1896 natkhat1901 jazzbo1914 scutter1940 bar steward1945 hoor1965 c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 219 Ane vnworthy lymmare, yat settis nocht for honour bot for pillery. a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Trial of Fox l. 1076 in Poems (1981) 44 ‘Byde!’ quod the lyoun. ‘Lymmer, let vs se Giff it be suthe the selie ȝow hes said.’ c1540 J. Bellenden in tr. H. Boece Hyst. & Cron. Scotl. sig. Diij^v He causit hir to be schamfully defowlit with rebaldis & lymmaris of his cuntre. 1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1895) II. 219 Adam Scot special bordirer, and limmer, commounlie calit king of traytouris. 1602 King James VI & I Let. to Elizabeth I in Lett. (1849) 147 The repreasing of fugitiues and lymmeries [sic]. 1607 Sc. Acts Jas. VI (1816) IV. 379/2 That Insolent and wicked race and name of the glengregour and notorious lymberis and malefactouris. a1637 B. Jonson Sad Shepherd in Wks. (1640) III Fowle Limmer! drittie Louwne! View more context for this quotation 1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth iv, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. I. 104 There have been a proper set of limmers about to scale your windows, father Simon. 2. Applied to a woman: (a) a light woman; a strumpet; (b) (in weaker sense) a jade, hussy, minx. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [noun] > sexual indulgence > unchaste behaviour of woman > unchaste or loose woman queanOE whorec1175 malkinc1275 wenchelc1300 ribalda1350 strumpeta1350 wench1362 filtha1375 parnelc1390 sinner14.. callet1415 slut?c1425 tickle-tailc1430 harlot?a1475 mignote1489 kittock?a1500 mulea1513 trulla1516 trully?1515 danta1529 miswoman1528 stewed whore1532 Tib1533 unchaghe1534 flag1535 Katy1535 jillet1541 yaud1545 housewife1546 trinkletc1550 whippet1550 Canace1551 filthy1553 Jezebel1558 kittyc1560 loonc1560 laced mutton1563 nymph1563 limmer1566 tomboy1566 Marian1567 mort1567 cockatrice1568 franion1571 blowze1573 rannell1573 rig1575 Kita1577 poplet1577 light-skirts1578 pucelle1578 harlotry1584 light o' lovea1586 driggle-draggle1588 wagtail1592 tub-tail1595 flirt-gill1597 minx1598 hilding1599 short-heels1599 bona-roba1600 flirt1600 Hiren1600 light-heels1602 roba1602 baggage1603 cousin1604 fricatrice1607 rumbelow1611 amorosa1615 jaya1616 open-taila1618 succubus1622 snaphancea1625 flap1631 buttered bun1638 puffkin1639 vizard1652 fallen woman1659 tomrigg1662 cunt1663 quaedama1670 jilt1672 crack1677 grass-girl1691 sporting girl1694 sportswoman1705 mobbed hood1707 brim1736 trollop1742 trub1746 demi-rep1749 gillyflower1757 lady of easy virtue1766 mot1773 chicken1782 gammerstang1788 buer1807 scarlet woman1816 blowen1819 fie-fie1820 shickster?1834 streel1842 charver1846 trolly1854 bad girl1855 amateur1862 anonyma1862 demi-virgin1864 pickup1871 chippy1885 wish-wife1886 tart1887 tartleta1890 flossy1893 fly girl1893 demi-mondaine1894 floozy1899 slattern1899 scrub1900 demi-vierge1908 cake1909 coozie1912 muff1914 tarty1918 yes-girl1920 radge1923 bike1945 puta1948 messer1951 cooze1955 jamette1965 skeezer1986 slutbag1987 chickenhead1988 ho1988 1566 in J. Raine Depositions Courts Durham (1845) 83 In causa diffamacionis, viz. that his wyf was a lymer. 1728 A. Ramsay Last Speech Miser in Poems II. viii I wore nae frizzl'd limmer's hair. 1786 R. Burns Twa Dogs xxvi, in Poems 19 Except for breakin o' their timmer, Or speakin lightly o' their Limmer. 1814 W. Scott Waverley III. xv^. 216 Kate and Matty, the limmers, gaed aff wi' twa o' Hawley's dragoons, and I hae twa new queans instead o' them. View more context for this quotation 1851 G. Borrow Lavengro* (1900) lxxxv. 460 Leave my husband in the hands of you and that limmer, who has never been true to us. 1897 S. R. Crockett Lads' Love xiii. 141 ‘Oh—the limmer—how dared she’, cried my mother, on fire instantly at the hint of an insult or rejection to her eldest son. B. adj. Knavish, scoundrelly. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > roguery > [adjective] pautenerc1330 palliard1484 limmer?a1513 limmerful?a1513 slovenly?1518 knavish1552 patchingc1555 rascal1566 roguing1566 knaifatic1568 roguish1572 rascally1586 land-loping1587 Scanderbegging1593 cullionly1608 rogorous1609 loseling1624 scoundrel1643 schelmish1654 pickled1683 rapscallionly1699 scoundrelish1705 rapscallion1711 pickle1774 scoundrelly1790 picaresque1822 furciferous1823 scapegrace1830 society > morality > moral evil > wickedness > roguery, knavery, or rascalry > [adjective] pautenerc1330 palliard1484 varletc1485 knavisha1492 limmer?a1513 limmerful?a1513 briberous?1536 patchingc1555 rascal1566 roguing1566 roguish1575 arrant1581 skybala1585 rascally1586 land-loping1587 shag-ragc1590 Scanderbegging1593 Scanderbeg1601 rogorous1609 rogueya1627 scoundrel1643 schelmish1654 skelm1673 rapscallionly1699 rapscallion1711 scoundrelly1790 furciferous1823 scapegrace1830 a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 153 With mony a lymmar loun. 1562 A. Scott Poems (1896) i. 53 For lymmer lawdis and litle lassis lo. a1637 B. Jonson Sad Shepherd in Wks. (1640) III Hence with 'hem, limmer lowne, Thy vermin, and thy selfe, thy selfe art one. View more context for this quotation a1785 Rookhope Ryde iv, in F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads (1889) III. vi. 439 Limmer thieves drives them away. Derivatives † limmerful adj. Obsolete knavish. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > roguery > [adjective] pautenerc1330 palliard1484 limmer?a1513 limmerful?a1513 slovenly?1518 knavish1552 patchingc1555 rascal1566 roguing1566 knaifatic1568 roguish1572 rascally1586 land-loping1587 Scanderbegging1593 cullionly1608 rogorous1609 loseling1624 scoundrel1643 schelmish1654 pickled1683 rapscallionly1699 scoundrelish1705 rapscallion1711 pickle1774 scoundrelly1790 picaresque1822 furciferous1823 scapegrace1830 society > morality > moral evil > wickedness > roguery, knavery, or rascalry > [adjective] pautenerc1330 palliard1484 varletc1485 knavisha1492 limmer?a1513 limmerful?a1513 briberous?1536 patchingc1555 rascal1566 roguing1566 roguish1575 arrant1581 skybala1585 rascally1586 land-loping1587 shag-ragc1590 Scanderbegging1593 Scanderbeg1601 rogorous1609 rogueya1627 scoundrel1643 schelmish1654 skelm1673 rapscallionly1699 rapscallion1711 scoundrelly1790 furciferous1823 scapegrace1830 a1513 W. Dunbar Flyting in Poems (1998) I. 205 Thy lymmerfull [a1586 lymmair] luke wald fle thame. † limmery n. Obsolete knavery. ΚΠ 1567 Compend. Bk. Godly Songs (1897) 206 The lymmerie lang hes lestit. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.c1485
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