单词 | pilget |
释义 | pilgetn. Scottish (chiefly north-eastern). 1. A quarrel; a disagreement. Also figurative: a struggle. Sc. National Dict. s.v. records this sense as still in use in north-eastern Scotland in 1965. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > endeavour > [noun] > striving or struggling > an act of strugglingc1386 effort1490 bargain1615 struggle1692 pilget1777 warsle1792 sprattle1824 wrestle1893 society > society and the community > dissent > quarrel or quarrelling > [noun] > a quarrel controversy1448 tencion?1473 brulyie1531 pique1532 feudc1565 quarrel1566 jar1583 controverse1596 brack1600 outcast1620 rixation1623 controversarya1635 simultya1637 outfall1647 outfallingc1650 controversion1658 démêlé1661 embroilment1667 strut1677 risse1684 rubber1688 fray1702 brulyiement1718 fallout1725 tossa1732 embroil1742 ding-dong?1760 pilget1777 fratch1805 spar1836 splutter1838 bust-up1842 whid1847 chip1854 kass-kass1873 wap1887 run-in1894 go-round1898 blue1943 hassle1945 square-up?1949 ruck1958 1777 R. Forbes Ulysses' Answer 19 I need na' tell the pilgets a' I've had wi' feirdy foes. 1871 W. Alexander Johnny Gibb p. xliv Fan we begood the pilget here thegither, wi' three stirks, an' a bran'it coo 't cam' wi' your providin'. 1933 N. Shepherd Pass in Grampians i. 6 She maybe minded on a bit pilgate her and me had the last time we met,..and she cairded me in some style, I'm tellin' you. 2. A state of excitement or agitation. ΚΠ 1866 W. Gregor Dial. Banffshire (Philol. Soc.) 125 He's nivver oot ae pilget aboot's money maitters bit he's intil anither. 1913 W. Fraser Jeremiah Jobb 18 'E'll lan' yirsel' in a fine pilgit wi mebbe half-a-dizzen breaches o' promise hingin' ower ye. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1777 |
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