单词 | auld-farrant |
释义 | auld-farrantadj. Chiefly Scottish. 1. Esp. of a child or young adult: having the manners, temperament, or wisdom of an older person; characteristic of such a person; (sometimes more specifically) wise, prudent, shrewd. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > wisdom, sagacity > worldly wisdom > [adjective] world-wiseOE worldly-wisec1400 smart1571 shrewd1589 hard1655 sharp1697 auld-farrant1702 up to snuff1810 canny1816 savvy1826 worldly1829 lairy1846 facultized1872 sophisticated1895 hep1899 hip1904 streetwise1949 ready1967 kewl1990 1702 [implied in: R. Thoresby Diary 20 Feb. (1830) I. 352 Was surprised to see his sickly child of three years old fill its pipe of tobacco, and smoke it as audfarandly as a man of threescore. (at auld-farrantly at Derivatives)]. 1721 A. Ramsay Poems I. 253 These People [sc. the Dutch], right auld-faran, will be laith To thwart a Nation, wha with Ease can draw Up ilka Sluce they have, and drown them a'. 1722 W. Hamilton Life of Sir William Wallace 263 John was a cliver and auldfarrand Boy. 1816 W. Scott Antiquary III. xiii. 272 This auld man..is very skeely and auld-farrant about mony things, as the diseases of cows [etc.]. 1829 J. Hogg Shepherd's Cal. I. 232 Ye're kenn'd for an auld-farrant man. 1894 Punch 8 Dec. 267/2 Ye 'd best stand asoide; Hide your old-farrant face behind yon ellum. a1910 T. Hardy Serm. in Preacher, Pastor, Poet (1910) 41 She was precious in many hearts, the little playful chatterbox with her old-farrant ways, and her bonnie smile! 1992 D. Purves Shakespeare's Tragedie o Macbeth iv. ii. 47 Ye speak lyke a bairn, but ye are auld-farrant, tae. 2. Old-fashioned, antiquated. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > oldness or ancientness > [adjective] > old-fashioned or antiquated moth-frettenOE antiquate?a1425 antique?1532 rusty1549 moth-eaten1551 musty1575 worm-eatenc1575 overyear1584 out of date1589 old-fashioned1592 out of date1592 worm-eat1597 old-fashion1599 ancient1601 outdated1616 out-of-fashion1623 over-aged1623 superannuateda1634 thorough-old1639 overdateda1641 trunk-hosea1643 antiquitated1645 antiquated1654 out-of-fashioned1671 unmodern1731 of the old school1749 auld-farrant1750 old-fangled1764 fossila1770 fogram1772 passé1775 unmodernized1775 oxidated1791 moss-covered1792 square-toeda1797 old-fashionable1807 pigtail1817 behind the times1826 slow1827 fossilized1828 rococo1836 antiquish1838 old-timey1850 out of season1850 moss-grown1851 old style1858 antiqued1859 pigtaily1859 prehistoric1859 backdated1862 played1864 fossiled1866 bygone1869 mossy-backed1870 old-worldly1878 past-time1889 outmoded1896 dated1900 brontosaurian1909 antiquey1926 horse-and-buggy1926 vintage1928 Neolithic1934 time-warped1938 demoded1941 steam age1941 hairy1946 old school1946 rinky-dink1946 time warp1954 Palaeolithic1957 retardataire1958 throwback1968 wally1969 antwacky1975 1750 Sc. Mag. Mar. 113/1 It pleas'd me best, To sit and think on his auldfarran tales, That frae's the dreighest time sae saftly steals. 1844 Ladies' Cabinet Dec. 362 Dinna forget..to sing our ain bonny Scotland,—her auld farrant simple manners,—her honest, God-fearing cotters [etc.]. 1864 W. Black James Merle v. 83 The hamely way that he, a professor in Enbro', spak the auld-farrant Lanarkshire words. 1875 W. Dickinson Cumbriana 266 I see thou's like me John, thou still wears t' oald-farrant mak o' brutches. 1900 J. M. Barrie Tommy & Grizel xxiv. 333 She knew..where to obtain..stately clocks made in the town a hundred years ago, and quaint old-farrant lamps and cogeys and sand-glasses. 1934 B. Tunstall Long Day Closes ii. iii. 75 My lady took to her little Madam's Chamber... There was an old-farant spinet in it. 1959 Country Life 27 Aug. 127/2 An auld-farrant place it is, with a sense of spaciousness, of dignity and timelessness. 1990 Burns Chron. & Club Directory 4th Ser. 99 11 Trying to persuade management of traditional heavy industries, entrenched in auld farrant processes, to adopt the new technology. 2007 S. Blackhall Quarry iii. 25 Naebody noo ett auld-farrand food onless 'twis a speecial event. DerivativesΚΠ 1702 R. Thoresby Diary 20 Feb. (1830) I. 352 Was surprised to see his sickly child of three years old fill its pipe of tobacco, and smoke it as audfarandly as a man of threescore. 1835 J. M. Wilson Hist. Tales Borders I. 130/2 Sandy used to listen most attentively, and crack to me very auld-farrantly. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1702 |
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