单词 | mawkit |
释义 | mawkitadj. Scottish (chiefly western and southern). 1. Full of maggots, maggoty (also figurative). Also more generally: putrid, decayed. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > infestation by noxious creatures > [adjective] > with weevils or maggots maggoty1699 weevily1757 mawkit1824 weeviled1901 1824 J. Mactaggart Sc. Gallovidian Encycl. 244 The sheep grow mawket on the hill, And sair themsells they claw. 1919 G. Rae 'Tween Clyde & Tweed 56 Man, hev ye nae left scour For mackit souls, like yours, sair needin' dip? 1946 Scots Mag. Apr. 8 Did ye get any mawkit sheep when ye were oot? 1962 in Sc. National Dict. (1965) VI. 221/2 Maukit,..putrid, decayed (Gsw.). 1988 W. A. D. Riach Galloway Gloss. 29 Mackit, infested. 2. Dirty, filthy. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > [adjective] uncleaneOE horyc1000 foulOE fennilicha1225 sutya1225 mixc1225 blackc1300 solwyc1325 bawdy1377 filthyc1384 nastyc1390 sowlyc1400 soryc1440 uncleanly1447 mossyc1450 dungyc1494 bedirted1528 slubberly?1529 filthish1530 deturpate?1533 mucky1538 stercorous1542 bluterc1550 dungish?1550 puddly1559 drumly1563 suddle1568 parbruilyiedc1586 sluttered1589 dirty1600 ordurous?1606 immund1621 turpie1633 sterquilinious1647 bruckled1648 cloacal1656 foede1657 stercorose1727 murky1755 sterquilinian1772 cloacinean1814 floy1820 poucey1829 stoachy1836 mullocky1839 muckering1841 sewery1851 dutty1853 dauby1855 cloacean1859 mucky1863 bilgy1878 cloacaline1879 muck-heapy1881 cloacinal1887 schmutzig1911 grufty1922 scabrous1939 mawkit1962 feechie1975 1962 in Sc. National Dict. (1965) VI. 221/2 Maukit,..dirty, filthy (Ayr.). 1984 J. Kelman Busconductor Hines iv. 168 The more mockit the better, where the air stinks. 1989 J. A. C. Stevenson Scoor-Oot 228 Maukit, dirty, filthy. After being empty for months, a house may be maukit. 1992 I. Pattison More Rab C. Nesbitt Scripts 133 Rab! Ya durty big mockit wet brained keechkicker that yi are! 2017 T. A. Harvey in Lallans 91 22 A wee wifie, Happit in mawkit rags. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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