单词 | pavie |
释义 | pavien.1 Scottish. A clever or deceptive movement; a nimble gesture; a flourish. In later use also: an exaggerated or excessive movement; a commotion, a bustle, a flurry. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > legerdemain, etc. > [noun] > a trick colea1307 playa1475 conveyance1534 legerdemain?1544 prank1555 convoyance1578 sleight1596 pass1599 paviea1605 trick1609 sleight of handa1626 hocus-pocus1647 juggle1664 hocus-trickc1680 passe-passe1687 jugglementa1708 thaumaturgics1721 necromantics1745 conjuration1820 a1605 R. Birrel Diarey 47 in J. G. Dalyell Fragm. of Scotish Hist. (1798) A juglar..playit sic sowple tricks upone ane tow..the lyk wes nevir sene in yis countrie, as he raid doune the tow and playit sa maney pavies on it. 1681 S. Colvil Mock Poem i. 72 For some of such had play'd a pavie. a1689 W. Cleland Coll. Poems (1697) 47 Well versed in Court Modes; In French Pavies, and new Com'd Nods. 1768 A. Ross Fortunate Shepherd MS 106 Well drest an' clean, an' stately step with a', With a pavie he comes into the Ha'. 1824 J. Mactaggart Sc. Gallovidian Encycl. 381 Some people are always in a peyvee throng, seemingly to the last degree, yet doing little. 1866 T. Edmondston Etymol. Gloss. Shetland & Orkney Dial. 82 Paavie (accent on last syllable), a kind of fantastic gesture, waving with the hand, etc.; when speaking, using such gestures is called the ‘paavie’. 1881 Good Words 22 406 What she would have termed a ‘peyvee’—a useless, unnecessary bustle which meant effectually to prevent any settled conversation. 1912 C. P. Slater Marget Pow in Foreign Parts 96 We came away from Lucerne yesterday, at eight o'clock in the mornin' in a terrible pavee, and very nearly lost the train. 1988 G. Lamb Orkney Wordbk. (at cited word) In a pavie, in a state of worry or excitement. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). pavien.2 Chiefly Horticulture. A clingstone peach or nectarine. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > stone fruit > [noun] > peach > clingstone peach presse1604 pavie1675 clingstone1840 lemon cling1848 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > stone fruit > peach > types of peach presse1604 avant-peach1611 man peach1629 nutmeg1629 Roman peach1629 muscat1664 Rambouillet1664 winter peach1664 rumbullion1670 Orleans1674 pavie1675 Magdalenea1678 minion1691 admirable1693 maudlin1699 clingstone1705 nipple peach1719 rareripe1722 melter1766 vanguard1786 freestone1807 cling1845 lemon cling1848 peregrine1903 doughnut peach1993 1675 C. Cotton Planters Man. 119 These are commonly distinguished into Pavies, that do not part from the stone, and are the males; and Peaches which do cleave from the stone, and are the females. 1690 W. Temple Ess. Gardens of Epicurus in Wks. (1720) I. 183 Of the Pavies or Hard Peaches, I know none good here but the Newington. 1726 Dict. Rusticum (ed. 3) The White Pavey outwardly is the same with the White Magdalen, only in opening, it is found to be a Pavey, viz. Cleaving to the Stone. 1766 Compl. Farmer at Peach-tree The French distinguish those we call peaches into two sorts, viz. pavies, and peaches. 1825 N.Y. Lit. Gaz. 8 Oct. 79/1 It [sc. the fruit of the Mammaea] was as large as a small shaddock, and on being cut, was found to be constituted very much like the pavy or cling-stone peach, though often with more kernels or stones than one. 1892 Chambers's Encycl. (new ed.) VII. 824/1 The peach and nectarine are palpably divided..into clingstones (or Pavies) and freestones. 1913 F. A. Waugh Amer. Peach Orchard xx. 234 In a list of thirty-nine choice sorts of peaches, given by Mr. Forsyth, only six are received by the French as pavies or clingstones. 2000 Grocer (Nexis) 3 June 16 Some varieties [of peach], known as pavies, go for processing and do not affect the fresh market. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1a1605n.21675 |
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