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单词 rammist
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rammistadj.1

Brit. /ˈramᵻst/, U.S. /ˈræməst/, Scottish English /ˈramᵻst/
Forms:

α. pre-1700 ramist, pre-1700 rammyst, pre-1700 ramysd, pre-1700 ramysde, pre-1700 ramysset, pre-1700 1800s– rammist, 1800s ramest.

β. 1800s rammisht, 1900s– ramished.

Origin: Apparently formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: English rammis , rammish adj.2, rammish v., -ed suffix1.
Etymology: Apparently < rammis, Scots variant of rammish adj.2 (although this is first attested slightly later) + -ed suffix1. In later use probably also < rammish v. + -ed suffix1.
Scottish. Now rare.
1.
a. Of a person: mad, crazy; frantic; rash, headstrong.
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the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [adjective] > frenzied or raging
aweddeOE
woodc1000
woodlyc1000
wildc1300
franticc1390
ramage1440
welling woodc1440
staringc1449
rammistc1455
rabious1460
horn-wood?a1500
rammisha1500
enragea1522
frenzic1547
wood-like1578
horn-mad1579
woodful1582
frenzicala1586
ragefula1586
rabid1594
ravening1599
ravenous1607
Pythic1640
exorbitant1668
frenziful1726
haggard-wild1786
frenzied1796
maenadic1830
berserk1867
up the wall1951
ballistic1981
c1455 Regiam Majestatem c. 180 Gif he be a lunatik or rammyst.
c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 230 A wood man a ramysde fule, yat for lytill gude wald sett his lyf jn perile.
c1540 J. Bellenden tr. H. Boece Hyst. & Cron. Scotl. v. xi. f. 61/1 The residew..come..as rammist and wod creaturis to haue reuengit ye slauchter of yeir freindis.
1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. Rammisht, crazy. Mearns.
1880 W. T. Dennison Orcadian Sketch-bk. 101 Na, Robo, trath th'u'll t'are me toy;—Th'u're sic' a ramest bit o' boy.
1911 A. Warrack Scots Dial. Dict. Ramished, Rammist, furious, crazy.
b. Of an animal: wild, untamed. Obsolete.
ΚΠ
a1540 (c1460) G. Hay tr. Bk. King Alexander (1974) 487 That man his are suld be Quhilk mycht and durst the ramist distrale dant.
2. Falconry. = ramage adj. 2a. Obsolete.
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the world > animals > birds > order Falconiformes (falcons, etc.) > family Accipitridae (hawks, etc.) > [adjective] > of hawk > wild or untrained
ramagea1393
rammist1501
rammisha1529
haggarda1566
unmanned1577
haggardly1580
unstaid1614
1501 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1900) II. 118 To Schir Andro Murrayis man that brocht ane ramysset halk to the king.

Derivatives

rammistness n. Obsolete madness, frenzy.
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the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > frenzy or raging
wood dreameOE
frenzyc1340
furor1477
rammistnessc1485
wildnessc1540
willnessc1540
frenzicness1547
frenziness1594
phrenition1642
amok1665
nympholepsy1776
nympholepsia1885
c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 213 The quhilk duk..takis a woodnes, and a ramysdness jn his hede.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

rammistadj.2

Brit. /ˈramᵻst/, U.S. /ˈræməst/, Scottish English /ˈramᵻst/
Forms:

α. 1800s– raamesed, 1800s– raamest, 1900s– raameesed, 1900s– raamest, 1900s– raamis'd, 1900s– raamisd, 1900s– ramest, 1900s– ramist, 1900s– rammist, 1900s– romis'd.

β. 1800s– raamisht, 1800s– ramished, 1900s– raamished, 1900s– ramisht, 1900s– raumished.

Origin: Apparently a borrowing from Norn.
Etymology: Apparently < the unattested Norn cognate of Norwegian regional romsen not fully awake, peevish from lack of sleep ( < the Scandinavian base of Norwegian regional romsa to stir in sleep, to awake and sit up (further etymology uncertain) + the Scandinavian base of Norwegian -en -en suffix6), remodelled after rammist adj.1
Scottish (Orkney and Shetland).
Dazed, confused, esp. from lack of sleep; (esp. of a child) fretful, peevish, cross. Also: stupid, dull-witted.
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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
the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > physical insensibility > dullness of sense perception > [adjective] > physically stupefied
amazedOE
astoundc1315
stonieda1340
dareda1400
dazedc1400
stupefact?a1425
adasedc1450
dolda1500
dazinga1533
dazzling1571
stupid1571
fordulled1591
entranced1594
torpid1656
damp1667
stuporous1712
rammista1838
stuporose1879
dazy1880
sent1940
like a stunned mullet1953
a1838 T. Barclay Gloss. Shetland Words (NLS Adv. 22.5.2) Raamisht, half-asleep, half-awake; expressive of that conglomerated state of one's ideas which continues for some time after being prematurely awakened from sleep.
1899 J. Spence Shetland Folk-lore 180 Holding in her lap a ramished bairn, which she soothes by singing.
1901 Shetland News 1 June 7/3 Raamis'd föle 'at shü wis. Johnnie Neevin wis wirt twinty o' hir kind in his bare sark! Loard bliss me as I tink if I wis ta meet hir be hirsel' ony-wye, I wid tink little o' ca' in me fit in hir.
1922 J. Inkster Mansie's Röd 25 If Girzzie waukens oot o' her first sleep in a raamest fit.
1929 H. Marwick Orkney Norn 137/2 Ramist,..ill-at-rest, unsettled, cross and peevish—of a child... In Shetland ramist means cross and peevish through lack of sleep.
1933 J. Gray Lowrie 82 I wis kinda raamished, an' wisna gotten da gurr oot o' me een, whin shu bade me turn me ower.
1988 G. Lamb Orkney Wordbk. Ramist, confused by drink, cross from lack of sleep.
2005 C. De Luca Smootie comes ta Lerrick 15 Smootie, half raamished, fan hersel in a wire basket, kyerried up da lane an inta a car.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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