单词 | moidering |
释义 | moideringadj. Chiefly Irish English and English regional before 20th cent. Stupefying, bewildering; (also) stupefied, wandering. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > fear > physical symptoms of fear > [adjective] > stupefied astonedc1300 astonieda1375 obstupefacta1538 moidered1587 dunt1787 stupefied1790 moidering1839 punch-drunk1922 1839 G. C. Lewis Gloss. Words Herefordshire 68 Moithering or Moithered, confused, silly; also lightheaded or delirious. 1868 F. P. Verney Stone Edge xxv Ye'r' but a moithering chap. 1896 J. K. Snowden Web of Old Weaver vii. 78 It was out of these moidering talks with my mother that I gathered nerve enough [etc.]. 1901 Atlantic Monthly Jan. 45 His mother's a widdy woman with nine moidherin' childer, not countin' the pig an' the goat. 1958 L. Ferlinghetti Coney Island of Mind 32 Parading floats drift by decorated with gorgeous gussies in silk tights and attended by moithering monkeys. 1970 L. Ferlinghetti Mexican Night 54 Answerer to Allen Ginsberg, om-singer & om-maker, you, blind, moithering, roistering, rabble-rouser! This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1839 |
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