单词 | pookit |
释义 | pookitadj. Scottish and Irish English (northern). Of a bird or animal: plucked, moulted. In extended use, of a person or thing: meagre, emaciated, shabby. ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > smallness > [adjective] > of small or scanty extent narroweOE straitc1290 scarce1297 scanta1533 pinched?1567 strict1598 thrifty1601 straitened1602 scanty1701 scrimped?c1716 pookit1818 poky1828 postage-stamp-sized1852 poking1864 boxy1870 pocket handkerchief1910 postage stamp1937 the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > uncovering > [adjective] > stripped or made bare > stripped by plucking pookit1818 1818 S. E. Ferrier Marriage II. xi. 128 They hadnae thae pooket-like taps ye hae noo. 1824 S. E. Ferrier Inheritance III. xviii. 174 It [sc. the name] 's rather short and pookit. 1895 S. R. Crockett Men of Moss-hags lv I had not the spirit of a pooked hen. 1936 J. G. Horne Flooer o' Ling 69 By haudin up the keekin-gless To shame oor pookit skultieness. 1988 W. A. D. Riach Galloway Gloss. 33 A sheep is pookit or moulted when it has shed its wool. 1996 C. I. Macafee Conc. Ulster Dict. 259/1 Pookit-luckin dishevelled, untidy. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1818 |
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