单词 | moskered |
释义 | moskeredadj. Chiefly English regional (east midlands and northern). Now archaic and rare. Decayed, rotten. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [adjective] > decayed rottena1382 marcid?a1425 bada1450 decayed1528 carious1530 mouldy1576 perished1587 decrepit1594 moskered1612 marcidious1656 mortified1673 ampery1736 daddocky1790 1612 J. Smith Map of Virginia 15 Some moskered shining stones and spangles which the waters brought down. 1621 T. Granger Familiar Expos. Eccles. xii. 320 The teeth stand thin, or loose, or moskerd at the root. 1691 J. Ray North Country Words in Coll. Eng. Words 50 A Moskerd Tree, a Moskerd Tooth. 1787 F. Grose Provinc. Gloss. at Mosker A mosker'd tooth, a rotten, or decayed tooth. 1859 ‘T. Treddlehoyle’ Bairnsla Foaks' Ann. (E.D.D.) 41 Agean t'moskard walls wor hung soards, shields, &c. 1862 C. C. Robinson Dial. Leeds & Neighbourhood 361 A mosker'd owd wall. 1951 W. H. Auden Nones (1952) 54 Time conjures the moskered ancestral tower to plunge from its fastidious cornice down to the pigsties far below. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1612 |
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