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单词 pech
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pechn.1

Brit. /pɛx/, /pɛk/, U.S. /pɛk/, /pɛx/, Scottish English /pɛx/, Irish English /pɛx/
Forms: 1600s pegh, 1800s– peff (English regional (Yorkshire)); Scottish pre-1700 1800s– pech, 1700s–1800s pegh, 1900s– paech (Shetland), 1900s– paich.
Origin: Probably formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: pech v.
Etymology: Probably < pech v. (although first attested slightly earlier). N.E.D. (1904) gives the pronunciation as (pēχ, pēχy) /pɛːx/ /pɛːç/.
Scottish, English regional (northern), and Irish English.
1. A long, gasping or laboured breath; a pant, a gasp, a puff. Also: a sigh.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disordered breathing > [noun] > shortness of breath > panting
fnastinga1382
panting1440
pant?a1513
pech?a1513
anhelation?1548
hyperpnœa1860
a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 40 Ȝoung monkis..thair hait flesche dantis, Full fadirlyk, with pechis and pantis.
1572 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. 239 He gaif ane greit pech, lyke ane weill fed stirk.
a1624 Bp. M. Smith Serm. (1632) 257 He made but a pegh at it, saying, She gaue me, that, that without cruelty she could not take from me.
a1730 A. Pennecuik Compl. Coll. Poems (?1750) ii. 74 Wi' Bibles and Psalm Books they Cant, As ilk a ane o' them were Saint, Wi' Holy keckle, pegh and pant.
1876 C. C. Robinson Gloss. Words Dial. Mid-Yorks. 100/1 Peff is also as commonly heard substantively. ‘He gave a bit of a peff.’
1884 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Feb. 231 With a ‘pech’ of satisfaction.
1947 H. W. Pryde First Bk. McFlannels i. 14 His pechs broke out afresh as he tried, with his free hand, to smack the leg that was now ‘all pins and needles’.
2000 M. Fitt But n Ben A-go-go iv. 27 He brocht up a lang pech o air that stang his geggie like gasoline.
2. Scottish. An exhausting effort, a struggle; esp. a long or tiring climb.
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the world > action or operation > manner of action > effort or exertion > [noun] > exhausting effort or struggle
trachle1823
pecha1899
a1899 D. Nicolson MS Coll. Caithness Words in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1903) IV. 460/2 To get over anything with a pech, to accomplish it with an effort.
1947 Sc. Mag. Nov. 192 It is a ‘sair pech’, and resolves itself into a hand-and-foot climb toward the top.
1994 Herald (Glasgow) 23 Apr. 28 It's worth the pech to take the hill end-on, for the pleasure of walking along the series of humps until one is immediately above Balmaha and Loch Lomond.
2001 Sunday Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 8 Apr. 41 Though it's a fair pech to climb, it's well worth the effort.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

pechn.2

Brit. /pjɛtʃ/, U.S. /pjɛtʃ/
Forms: 1500s peach, 1700s–1800s peech, 1800s peetch, 1900s– pech, 1900s– pech'.
Origin: A borrowing from Russian. Etymon: Russian peč′.
Etymology: < Old Russian, Russian peč′ oven, stove (late 11th cent.), cognate with Old Church Slavonic peštĭ and similar forms in other Slavonic languages.
Now chiefly historical.
In Russia: a large stove, traditionally incorporating a low platform where a number of people could sit or lie, as formerly typical of peasant houses.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > that which or one who heats > [noun] > a device for heating or warming > devices for heating buildings, rooms, etc. > stove > types of stove
bath-stove1591
pech1591
stewpot1688
kitchen range1733
cockle1775
copper-hole1785
Franklin stove1787
kitchen stove1795
gas stove1818
calefactor1831
thermometer-stove1838
Vesta1843
airtight1844
ship-hearth1858
base-burner1861
wood-stove1875
box1878
tortoise1884
wood-burner1901
Quebec heater1903
pot belly1920
cosy stove1926–7
oil stove1934
paraffin stove1995
1591 G. Fletcher Of Russe Common Wealth xxviii. f. 112v All the winter time..they heat there Peaches, which are made lyke the Germane bathstoaues, and..so warme the house.
1780 Philos. Trans. 1779 (Royal Soc.) 69 327 A number of billets of wood are placed in the peech or stove.
1811 R. K. Porter Trav. Sketches I. xvii. 185 One quarter of it is occupied by a large stoue or peech, flat at the top; on which many of them take their nocturnal rest.
1858 G. A. Sala Journey Due North xii. 275 The institution which serves the Muscovite moujik for inglenook, cooking-range, summer siesta-place, winter bed, wardrobe, gossiping-place, and almost sole comfort and alleviator of misery—the Peetch, or stove.
1992 M. Matossian in B. Farnsworth & L. Viola Russ. Peasant Women i. 26 They must care for the animals, prepare firewood for the pech′, and lay out straw to sleep on.
2000 S. Schultze Culture & Customs Russia x. 139 The main room of the village house was dominated by the stove, called the pech.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

pechv.

Brit. /pɛx/, /pɛk/, U.S. /pɛk/, /pɛx/, Scottish English /pɛx/, Irish English /pɛx/
Forms: Scottish pre-1700 peach, pre-1700 peich, pre-1700 peigh, pre-1700 1700s– pech, 1700s–1800s pegh, 1800s paach (Shetland), 1800s peagh, 1800s pecgh (Shetland), 1800s peich, 1900s– paich, 1900s– paigh, 1900s– peech, 1900s– peich; English regional (chiefly northern) 1800s peigh, 1800s petch, 1800s– pech, 1800s– peck, 1800s– peff, 1800s– peh, 1800s– peygh; also Irish English (chiefly northern) 1800s– pegh, 1900s– paigh, 1900s– peich, 1900s– peigh, 1900s– pih.
Origin: Apparently an imitative or expressive formation.
Etymology: Apparently imitative; with the initial plosive consonant p compare puff v., pah int.; with the final fricative compare hech int., scraich v. Slightly earlier currency is probably implied by pech n.1 N.E.D. (1904) gives the pronunciation as (pēχ, pēχy) /pɛːx/ /pɛːç/.
Scottish, English regional (northern), and Irish English.
1. intransitive. To breathe hard, as from exertion, or with difficulty; to puff, to pant; to become short of breath.In quot. 1538-9: to exhale heavily; to blow.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disordered breathing > have or cause breathing disorder [verb (intransitive)] > become short of breath > pant
fnastc1000
puffc1300
pantc1350
fnesec1386
blowc1440
bluster1530
pech1538
pantlea1626
pank1669
heave1679
fuff1721
pipe1814
huff1881
1538–9 in J. Imrie et al. Burgh Court Bk. Selkirk (1960) 203 James Dounguell tuk to preif that Joke Mynto peichit in his faice and Jok Michelhill raif his clathis.
1572 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. 269 Now mon thay wirk and labour, pech and pant.
a1598 R. Rollock Lect. Passion (1616) xx. 188 He will tye the burthen of them on their owne backes, whilest they grone and peach.
1719 A. Ramsay 2nd Answer to Hamilton xi Pegh, fry, and girn, wi' spite and teen.
1721 A. Ramsay Prospect of Plenty 73 Peching fou sair.
1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Peff,..to breathe with difficulty.
1894 S. R. Crockett Raiders xxii. 199 At a pace that made me pech..like a wind-galled nag.
1955 Banffshire Adv. 19 May in Sc. National Dict. (1983) IV. (at cited word) They lookit lik' a team a' aul age pensioners, boo't an' wheezin', an' hipplin' an' paichin'.
1994 J. Kelman How Late it Was 254 If he could just stop breathing and listen but he was peching too much from the climb.
2. intransitive. To work or move with such exertion so as to pant with the effort. Also (occasionally) transitive. Also figurative.
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a1796 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 264 My Pegasus I'm got astride, And up Parnassus pechin [rhyme brechan].
1808 J. Mayne Siller Gun (new ed.) ii. 33 They wha had corns, or broken wind, Begood to pegh and limp behind.
1863 A. Steel Poems 53 Except like D—, that ace o' fellows, Noo pechin' at the devil's bellows.
1894 P. H. Hunter James Inwick x I thocht he was in the auld hech-how, aye pechin' through Chronicles.
1911 N. Munro Para Handy (1997) xxix. 131 This is no' yin of thaie common whales that chases herrin', and goes pechin' up and doon Kilbrannan Sound.
2000 Sunday Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 4 June 9 Mountains in Scotland are not noted for their eroticism—just ask those who pech their way up the Munros for their sins.

Derivatives

ˈpeching n.
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1754 R. Forbes Jrnl. London to Portsmouth in tr. Ovid Ajax his Speech (new ed.) 27 At last, wi' great peching an' granin, we gat it up with a pingle.
1822 J. Hogg Three Perils of Man I. iv. 54 I wad ride fifty miles to see ony ane o' the bonny dames that a' this pelting an' peching is about.
1992 J. Torrington Swing Hammer Swing! xiii. 120 All that panting and peching so's you can get a temporary projection of yourself into a temporary surrender of herself.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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