单词 | poortith |
释义 | poortithn. Scottish, Irish English (northern), and English regional (northern). The condition of being poor; poverty. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > poverty > [noun] waedlec888 wanspeedc893 wanea1100 wandrethc1175 miseasea1200 povertya1225 lowness?c1225 needc1225 orcostc1225 poorness?a1300 unwealtha1300 defaultc1300 porailc1325 straitnessa1340 poorhead1340 mischiefa1375 miseasetya1382 needinessa1382 misterc1385 indigencec1386 scarcitya1387 noughtc1400 scantnessc1400 necessity?1406 penurya1425 povertnessa1434 exilitya1439 wantc1450 scarcenessc1475 needinga1500 povertiesa1500 penurity?a1505 poortith?a1513 debility1525 tenuity1535 leanness1550 lack1555 Needham1577 inopy1581 pinching1587 dispurveyance1590 egency1600 macritude1623 penuriousness1630 indigency1631 needihood1648 necessitousness1650 egestuosity1656 straitened circumstancesa1766 unopulence1796 Queer Street1811 lowliness1834 breadlessness1860 unwealthiness1886 out-of-elbowness1890 secondary poverty1901 Short Street1920 a1513 W. Dunbar Flyting in Poems (1998) I. 204 Bot now in winter for purteth thow art traikit. 1565 Compend. Bk. Godly Psalmes sig. Fvi Extreme purtath [1578 pureteth], nor gret ryches Thou giue me nocht. ?1590–1 J. Burel tr. Pamphilus in Poems sig. B3v The rich man now reioysis ye may se, Quho wont before to sing dame Purtethis sang. 1721 A. Ramsay Prospect of Plenty 199 Curs'd poortith! love and hymen's deadly fae. 1737 A. Ramsay Coll. Scots Prov. vi. 10 Bear wealth well, poortith will bear it sell. 1786 R. Burns Poems 15 They're no sae wretched's ane wad think; Tho' constantly on poortith's brink. a1839 W. M. Praed How Poetry is best paid For 266 Though sorrow reign within his heart, And poortith hold his purse. 1882 G. Murray Poems 53 Jeanie was a bauld wee wife Wi' poortith waged successfu' strife. 1901 G. F. Savage-Armstrong Ballads 71 Though ye'd gilt auld Poortith's den, I cannae thole ye! 1925 R. L. Cassie Gangrel Muse 15 A sang we'll sing o' peertith caul', Fan we cam throwe the hard. 1990 L. Todd Words Apart 130 She would talk about how some people had to live in poortith, but I don't think you'd hear that now except from an old, old person. 2002 Sunday Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 22 Sept. 22 Cause we i the SNP care aneuch tae dae sumthin aboot national crises lik puirtith amang bairns. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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