单词 | miskin |
释义 | miskinn.1 English regional (chiefly south-west midlands) and Welsh English. A dunghill or dungheap; a midden; = mixen n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirty place > [noun] > dunghill mixenOE dung heap?a1300 miskinc1300 muckhilla1325 dunghillc1330 muck-heapa1400 middena1425 modyngstretea1500 dung mixenc1500 laystowa1513 mixhill1552 muck midden1552 laystall1553 middenstead1583 layheap1624 dung pile1658 midden lair1692 thurrock1708 stercorary1759 midden stance1844 c1300 in T. Hunt Pop. Med. 13th-cent. Eng. (1990) v. 263 Recipe mussourounys .i. poukisthes qui crescit super sterquilinium .i. miskyn. 1518 in Hereford Munic. MSS (transcript) (O.E.D. Archive) II. 252 We lewe hew goldsmethe for myskyn befor hys Stabell. 1576–7 in Hereford Munic. MSS (transcript) (O.E.D. Archive) I. ii. 101 Also that no person or persons lowe ne suffer any dunge mucke or cley in any streete over againste his or theyre doores or howses but Convey the same to the comen myskyns appointed for the same. 1601 Bp. W. Barlow Def. Protestants Relig. 8 A very heape and misken of shamelesse vntruethes. a1603 Order-bk. Worcester in J. Nichols Progresses Queen Elizabeth (1823) I. 533 Every person having any donghills or myskyns. 1640 J. Fletcher & J. Shirley Night-walker iii. sig. E3v Would you mellow my young pretty Mistresse In such a mis-ken? 1656 tr. J. A. Comenius Latinæ Linguæ Janua Reserata: Gate Lat. Tongue Unlocked xvi. §139 Our home-bred ones turn over miskens, and refuse things flung out. 1665 S. Harward Treat. Propag. Plants in G. Markham Way to Get Wealth iii. iv. 103 Good rank mould, tempered with short muck and misken water. 1789 W. Marshall Rural Econ. Glocestershire I. 330 Miskin, the common term for a dunghill; or a heap of compost. 1887 W. D. Parish & W. F. Shaw Dict. Kentish Dial. 102 Misken, a dunghill. 1896 G. F. Northall Warwickshire Word-bk. Miskin, a compost pit. 1974 W. Leeds Herefordshire Speech 77 Miskin,..manure heap; rubbish heap. 1999 D. Parry Gram. & Gloss. Conservative Anglo-Welsh Dial. Rural Wales 168/2 Miscin, (1) a cess-pool in a cow-house... (2) an ash-midden outside a house... (3) a dung-hill or manure-heap. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † miskinn.2 Obsolete. rare. A small bagpipe. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > wind instrument > pipe > [noun] > bagpipe bagc1275 stivec1290 cornemusec1384 musettea1393 bagpipec1405 pair1422 pipec1450 muse1484 drone1502 lilt-pipea1525 great pipe1592 miskin1593 Highland pipe1599 small-pipes1656 piffero1724 Highland bagpipe1728 zampogna1740 union pipes1788 Lowland pipes1794 pibroch1807 piob mhor1838 gaita1846 sack pipe1889 set1893 biniou1902 uillean pipes1906 1593 M. Drayton Idea ii. sig. B3 Now would I tune my miskins on this Greene [Poems (1619) 435 margin A little Bagpipe]. 1678 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Miskin, (old word) a little Bagpipe.] This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1c1300n.21593 |
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