| 单词 | miting |
| 释义 | † mitingn.α. late Middle English myghtyng, late Middle English mytting ((in a late copy),), late Middle English–1500s mytyng, 1500s myteyng, 1500s myting; Scottish pre-1700 miting, pre-1700 myting, pre-1700 mytting. β. 1500s mittine; Scottish pre-1700 myten, pre-1700 mytin. Obsolete. A diminutive creature. Frequently as a term of endearment or contempt. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > bodily height > shortness > [noun] > person dwarfeOE congeonc1230 go-by-ground?a1300 smalla1300 shrimpc1386 griga1400 gruba1400 murche1440 nirvil1440 mitinga1450 witherling1528 wretchocka1529 elf1530 hop-o'-my-thumb1530 pygmy1533 little person1538 manikin1540 mankin1552 dandiprat1556 yrle1568 grundy1570 Jack Sprat1570 squall1570 manling1573 Tom Thumb1579 pinka1585 squib1586 screaling1594 giant-dwarf1598 twattle1598 agate1600 minimus1600 cock sparrow1602 dapperling1611 modicum1611 scrub1611 sesquipedalian1615 dwarflinga1618 wretchcock1641 homuncio1643 whip-handle1653 homuncule1656 whippersnapper1674 chitterling1675 sprite1684 carliea1689 urling1691 wirling1691 dwarf man1699 poppet1699 durgan1706 short-arse1706 tomtit1706 Lilliputian1726 wallydraigle1736 midge1757 minikin1761 squeeze-crab1785 minimum1796 niff-naff1808 titman1818 teetotum1822 squita1825 cradden1825 nyaff1825 weed1825 pinkeen1850 fingerling1864 Lilliput1867 thumbling1867 midget1869 inch1884 shorty1888 titch1888 skimpling1890 stub1890 scrap1898 pygmoid1922 lofty1933 peewee1935 smidgen1952 pint-size1954 pint-sized1973 munchkin1974 a1450 York Plays (1885) 141 (MED) With þat mytyng, yf þat we be mette, Þer is no salue þat hym may saue. a1450 York Plays (1885) 303 Þou mummeland myghtyng! a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1897–1973) 115 Hayll, praty mytyng! 1508 W. Kennedy Flyting (Chepman & Myllar) in Poems W. Dunbar (1998) I. 216 A myten [1568 myting] full of flyting. a1529 J. Skelton Poems against Garnesche in Poet Wks. (1843) I. 123 For alle ys nat worthe a myteyng, A makerell nor a wyteyng. a1585 A. Montgomerie Flyting with Polwart 9 Foule mismade mytting. 1607 (?a1425) Chester Plays (Harl. 2124) i. 139 Such a lad in land no-where is; blow a note for that mytting. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online December 2021). <  n.a1450 |
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