单词 | batie bum |
释义 | † batie bumn. Scottish. derogatory. Obsolete. A lazy or feckless person; an idler. Cf. blaitie bum n., baty bummill n., bummill baty n.Quot. 1827 is from a mock epic poem set during the Scottish Reformation of the 16th cent., written in the style of Sir David Lindsay (see blaitie bum n.). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupid, foolish, or inadequate person > person of weak intellect > confused, muddled person > [noun] mafflardc1450 juffler15.. dromedary1567 madbrain1570 batie buma1586 addle-head1592 blunderkin1596 nit1598 addle-pate1601 hash1655 blunderbuss1692 blunderhead1692 shaffles1703 fog-pate1732 blunderer1741 puzzle-pate1761 slouch1767 étourdi1768 botch1769 puddle1782 bumble1789 scatter-brain1790 addle-brain1799 puzzle-head1815 shaffler1828 chowderhead1833 muddlehead1833 muddler1833 flounderer1836 duffer1842 muddle-pate1844 plug1848 incompetent1866 schlemiel1868 dinlo1873 drumble-dore1881 hodmandod1881 dub1887 prune1895 foozler1896 bollock1916 messer1926 Pilot Officer (also P.O.) Prune1942 spaz1965 spastic1981 a1586 A. Arbuthnot Miseries Pure Scolar in W. A. Craigie Maitland Folio MS (1919) I. 52 Bot than am I comptit ane batie bum And all men thinkis a play me till iniure. 1827 W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd iii. 98 Canon, and monk, and dean, and prior, And batie-bum, and beggin' freir. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < |
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