单词 | pech |
释义 | pechn.1 Scottish, English regional (northern), and Irish English. 1. A long, gasping or laboured breath; a pant, a gasp, a puff. Also: a sigh. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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 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. ΘΚΠ 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. 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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. 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