pensyadj.

Brit.

/ˈpɛnzi/, U.S.

/ˈpɛnsi/, Scottish English

/ˈpɛnsɪ/

Forms: late Middle English pense, late Middle English pensie, late Middle English 1700s– pensy, late Middle English (1800s– English regional (East Anglian)) pensey; Scottish 1700s– pensy, 1800s pencey, 1800s– pensie, 1900s– pincie (now rare).

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French pensif.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Middle French pensif pensive adj. (in nominative singular frequently pensis ). Loss of the final consonant may have been a parallel development in French and in English: see discussion s.v. -ive suffix, and compare hasty adj., jolly adj., etc.

Now rare (Scottish and English regional in later use).

1. Melancholy, thoughtful; = pensive adj.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > melancholy > [adjective] > pensive

thoughtfulc1300

pensivea1393

pensya1450

thoughtya1450

pensiful?c1450

pensative1574

melancholy1600

pensived1609

penseroso1813

penserose1831

penseful1865

a1450 in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1931) 159 90 (MED) Be noȝt to pense in no disese; God wil þe helpe if þou hym plese.

c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) 2990 With princes in his palais all pense [a1500 Trin. Dub. pensey] he sittis.

c1450 Alphabet of Tales (1904) I. 80 (MED) Þis holie man, felyng hym selfe styrrid with þis temptacion..began to wax hevy & pensie for þis thoght.

1831 J. Wilson Noctes Ambrosianae lv, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 537 It's an inspirin' retreat..for the inditin' o' a bit cheerfu' or pensie sang!

1929 R. Crawford In Quiet Fields 36 Their ain hill-win's pensie drool On brekan reed.

2. Scottish.

a. Spruce, neat, careful with one's appearance.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > pleasing appearance > [adjective] > neat or trim

netc1330

pertc1330

cleanc1386

nicec1400

picked?c1425

dapperc1440

feata1471

gim1513

trig1513

well-trimmedc1513

trick1533

smirk1534

tricksy1552

neat1559

netty1573

deft1579

primpc1590

briska1593

smug1598

spruce1598

sprink1602

terse1602

compt1632

nitle1673

sprig1675

snod1691

tight1697

smugged1706

snug1714

pensy1718

fitty1746

jemmy1751

sprucy1774

smartc1778

natty1785

spry1806

perjink1808

soigné1821

nutty1823

toiletted1823

taut1829

spick and span1846

spicy1846

groomed1853

spiffy1853

well-groomed1865

bandboxy1870

perjinkity1880

spick-span1888

bandbox1916

tiddly1925

whip-smart1937

spit and polish1950

spit-and-polished1977

1718 A. Ramsay Christ's-kirk on Green ii. 17 Furth started niest a pensy Blade.

a1806 R. Jamieson Pop. Ballads I. 292 There, couthie, and pensie, and sicker, Wonn'd honest young Hab o' the Heuch.

1813 Scotchman 117 A pensie coat wi a pouch i the tae side an a pocket i the tither.

1876 S. R. Whitehead Daft Davie 270 Her that was now so quiet and pensy to try such a wild kind o' freit seemed to strike us all as something no canny.

1957 Mearns Leader 7 June in Sc. National Dict. (1968) at Pense n.¹ A weel-pitten-on an' pensie buddy, awyte.

b. Giving oneself airs, conceited.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > pride > pretension to superiority > [adjective]

taunt?a1534

cocket1537

fastuous?1591

cobbing1599

whalebone1602

airy1606

fastigious1625

flatuous1630

high and mighty1633

vapouring1647

flatulent1658

hoity-toity1690

jackanapish1696

superior1711

penseful1788

uppish1789

pensy1790

stuck-up1812

glorified1821

toploftical1823

pretentious1832

sophomoric1837

highty-tighty1847

snippy1848

jumped-up1852

set-up1856

toplofty1859

cock-aloft1861

high-tone1864

high-toned1866

pretensivea1868

fancy-pants1870

hunched1870

snotty1870

head-in-air1880

uppity1880

jackanapsian1881

airified1882

sidey1898

posh1914

upstage1918

snooty1919

high-hatted1924

hincty1924

snot-nosed1941

posho1989

1790 A. Shirrefs Poems (Gloss.) Pensy, finical, foppish, conceited.

1817 Lintoun Green in R. Brown Comic Poems 81 The donsie dort, like pettled cade, Wi' pensy paughty pow.

1830 J. McDiarmid Sketches from Nature 382 Many of the neighbours regarded her [sc. Helen Walker] as ‘a little pensy body’—that is, conceited or proud.

1899 R. Wallace Country Schoolmaster 351 She is a pensy thing, i.e. has an affected manner.

1901 R. De B. Trotter Galloway Gossip Eighty Years Ago 25 Ye see they'r pensy kin o' mortals, yt thinks naebuddy's clever but theirsels.

1929 in Sc. National Dict. (1968) at Pense n.¹ She needna be pensy afore me, I ken the reet an' rise o' her.

a. Of a child: fretful, peevish. Scottish and English regional (East Anglian). Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > peevishness > [adjective]

protervec1384

teethya1500

peevishc1530

protervous1547

pettish1552

tatter1579

fretting1587

teeny1594

frampold1599

treaf1601

fretful1603

teety1621

frappish1631

froppish1659

huffy1680

toothy1691

peenging1724

fractious1725

crossish1740

huffish1755

petulant1755

refractious1761

pouty1799

pensy1803

fudgy1819

twiney1824

rammista1838

fretty1844

petful1852

patchy1862

fretsome1870

grizzly1900

anfractuous1923

1803 Scots Mag. Feb. 130/2 Some pensy chields, a new sprung race.

a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Pensy, fretful; uneasy. Chiefly applied to wayward children.

1893 in H. T. Cozens-Hardy Broad Norfolk (Eastern Daily Press) 99 She is a poor ‘pensey little thing’.

a1903 W. F. Rose in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1903) IV. 470/2 [Suffolk] Billy is a very pensy child.

b. Fastidious, fussy. English regional (northern). Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > appetite > [adjective] > having (good) appetite > having dainty appetite or palate

wanton1530

lickerish-lipped1577

lickerous-toothed1579

nice-stomached1604

tender-mouthed1620

nice-palated1683

toothsome1837

pensy1866

1866 Notes & Queries 3rd Ser. 10 67/1 Another person, speaking of a little dog that has been much petted, says ‘he is so pensy, he will not touch new milk’.

1903 B. Kirkby in Eng. Dial. Dict. IV. 470/2 [Westmorland] Her appetite is so pensy.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	pensy
释义	pensyadj. Brit. /ˈpɛnzi/, U.S. /ˈpɛnsi/, Scottish English /ˈpɛnsɪ/ Forms: late Middle English pense, late Middle English pensie, late Middle English 1700s– pensy, late Middle English (1800s– English regional (East Anglian)) pensey; Scottish 1700s– pensy, 1800s pencey, 1800s– pensie, 1900s– pincie (now rare). Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French pensif. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Middle French pensif pensive adj. (in nominative singular frequently pensis ). Loss of the final consonant may have been a parallel development in French and in English: see discussion s.v. -ive suffix, and compare hasty adj., jolly adj., etc. Now rare (Scottish and English regional in later use). 1. Melancholy, thoughtful; = pensive adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > melancholy > [adjective] > pensive thoughtfulc1300 pensivea1393 pensya1450 thoughtya1450 pensiful?c1450 pensative1574 melancholy1600 pensived1609 penseroso1813 penserose1831 penseful1865 a1450 in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1931) 159 90 (MED) Be noȝt to pense in no disese; God wil þe helpe if þou hym plese. c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) 2990 With princes in his palais all pense [a1500 Trin. Dub. pensey] he sittis. c1450 Alphabet of Tales (1904) I. 80 (MED) Þis holie man, felyng hym selfe styrrid with þis temptacion..began to wax hevy & pensie for þis thoght. 1831 J. Wilson Noctes Ambrosianae lv, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 537 It's an inspirin' retreat..for the inditin' o' a bit cheerfu' or pensie sang! 1929 R. Crawford In Quiet Fields 36 Their ain hill-win's pensie drool On brekan reed. 2. Scottish. a. Spruce, neat, careful with one's appearance. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > pleasing appearance > [adjective] > neat or trim netc1330 pertc1330 cleanc1386 nicec1400 picked?c1425 dapperc1440 feata1471 gim1513 trig1513 well-trimmedc1513 trick1533 smirk1534 tricksy1552 neat1559 netty1573 deft1579 primpc1590 briska1593 smug1598 spruce1598 sprink1602 terse1602 compt1632 nitle1673 sprig1675 snod1691 tight1697 smugged1706 snug1714 pensy1718 fitty1746 jemmy1751 sprucy1774 smartc1778 natty1785 spry1806 perjink1808 soigné1821 nutty1823 toiletted1823 taut1829 spick and span1846 spicy1846 groomed1853 spiffy1853 well-groomed1865 bandboxy1870 perjinkity1880 spick-span1888 bandbox1916 tiddly1925 whip-smart1937 spit and polish1950 spit-and-polished1977 1718 A. Ramsay Christ's-kirk on Green ii. 17 Furth started niest a pensy Blade. a1806 R. Jamieson Pop. Ballads I. 292 There, couthie, and pensie, and sicker, Wonn'd honest young Hab o' the Heuch. 1813 Scotchman 117 A pensie coat wi a pouch i the tae side an a pocket i the tither. 1876 S. R. Whitehead Daft Davie 270 Her that was now so quiet and pensy to try such a wild kind o' freit seemed to strike us all as something no canny. 1957 Mearns Leader 7 June in Sc. National Dict. (1968) at Pense n.¹ A weel-pitten-on an' pensie buddy, awyte. b. Giving oneself airs, conceited. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > pretension to superiority > [adjective] taunt?a1534 cocket1537 fastuous?1591 cobbing1599 whalebone1602 airy1606 fastigious1625 flatuous1630 high and mighty1633 vapouring1647 flatulent1658 hoity-toity1690 jackanapish1696 superior1711 penseful1788 uppish1789 pensy1790 stuck-up1812 glorified1821 toploftical1823 pretentious1832 sophomoric1837 highty-tighty1847 snippy1848 jumped-up1852 set-up1856 toplofty1859 cock-aloft1861 high-tone1864 high-toned1866 pretensivea1868 fancy-pants1870 hunched1870 snotty1870 head-in-air1880 uppity1880 jackanapsian1881 airified1882 sidey1898 posh1914 upstage1918 snooty1919 high-hatted1924 hincty1924 snot-nosed1941 posho1989 1790 A. Shirrefs Poems (Gloss.) Pensy, finical, foppish, conceited. 1817 Lintoun Green in R. Brown Comic Poems 81 The donsie dort, like pettled cade, Wi' pensy paughty pow. 1830 J. McDiarmid Sketches from Nature 382 Many of the neighbours regarded her [sc. Helen Walker] as ‘a little pensy body’—that is, conceited or proud. 1899 R. Wallace Country Schoolmaster 351 She is a pensy thing, i.e. has an affected manner. 1901 R. De B. Trotter Galloway Gossip Eighty Years Ago 25 Ye see they'r pensy kin o' mortals, yt thinks naebuddy's clever but theirsels. 1929 in Sc. National Dict. (1968) at Pense n.¹ She needna be pensy afore me, I ken the reet an' rise o' her. 3. a. Of a child: fretful, peevish. Scottish and English regional (East Anglian). Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > peevishness > [adjective] protervec1384 teethya1500 peevishc1530 protervous1547 pettish1552 tatter1579 fretting1587 teeny1594 frampold1599 treaf1601 fretful1603 teety1621 frappish1631 froppish1659 huffy1680 toothy1691 peenging1724 fractious1725 crossish1740 huffish1755 petulant1755 refractious1761 pouty1799 pensy1803 fudgy1819 twiney1824 rammista1838 fretty1844 petful1852 patchy1862 fretsome1870 grizzly1900 anfractuous1923 1803 Scots Mag. Feb. 130/2 Some pensy chields, a new sprung race. a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Pensy, fretful; uneasy. Chiefly applied to wayward children. 1893 in H. T. Cozens-Hardy Broad Norfolk (Eastern Daily Press) 99 She is a poor ‘pensey little thing’. a1903 W. F. Rose in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1903) IV. 470/2 [Suffolk] Billy is a very pensy child. b. Fastidious, fussy. English regional (northern). Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > appetite > [adjective] > having (good) appetite > having dainty appetite or palate wanton1530 lickerish-lipped1577 lickerous-toothed1579 nice-stomached1604 tender-mouthed1620 nice-palated1683 toothsome1837 pensy1866 1866 Notes & Queries 3rd Ser. 10 67/1 Another person, speaking of a little dog that has been much petted, says ‘he is so pensy, he will not touch new milk’. 1903 B. Kirkby in Eng. Dial. Dict. IV. 470/2 [Westmorland] Her appetite is so pensy. 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