单词 | rammy |
释义 | rammyn. Scottish colloquial. A brawl, a fight, esp. between gangs; a quarrel; a scrimmage. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > dissent > fighting > [noun] > a fight > street or gang-fight bicker1861 scuttle1864 gang fight1889 rammy1935 rumble1946 1935 A. MacArthur & H. K. Long No Mean City iv. 45 Evidence about a ‘rammy’ is always conflicting, never reliable and frequently perjured. 1944 Scots Mag. Oct. 46 Not so long ago, in a dance hall rammy, a fella had laid hands on Hardy. 1973 J. Wood North Beat vi. 82 He'd had a rammy with his missus. 1992 J. Meek Last Orders 2 When the bus came, it was just a rammy, being first in a queue of three and having five people pile on before any of you. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). rammyadj. 1. Of a smell, taste, etc.: rank, pungent, rammish. Of a person or animal: characterized by such a smell. Now chiefly English regional (north-west midlands and northern). ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > fetor > [adjective] foul-stinkingOE poignantc1387 rammishc1395 rank1479 reekya1500 puanta1529 unsavoury1539 uglyc1540 contagious1547 noisome1559 fulsome1576 fetid1599 nasty1601 unsweet1605 rammy1607 stenchful1615 stinkardly1616 rancid1627 reeking1629 pungent1644 olidous1646 stenching1654 graveolent1657 maleolent1657 virous1661 olid1680 ranciduous1688 feculent1703 virose1756 stenchy1757 infragrant1813 inodorous1823 nosy1836 malodorous1850 unfragrant1858 smelly1862 cacodorous1863 stinky1888 funked out1893 niffya1903 whiffy1905 pongy1936 fresh1966 minging1970 bogging1973 bowfing1983 honking1985 the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > unsavouriness > [adjective] > rank or rancid restya1325 rest1381 rammishc1395 areast1440 reested?c1475 reesed1486 musty1492 rusty?1521 turned1548 reasty1573 froughy1579 flatten1594 reasy1598 rammy1607 rancid1627 loud1641 ranked1648 virous1661 ranciduous1688 raftya1722 virose1756 reeky1854 loud-flavoured1866 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 622 That Rammy humour and ranke moistnes which is founde in the Male-sheep. 1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy ii. ii. i. i. 306 Galen takes exception at mutton; but without question he means that rammy mutton, which is in Turkie and Asia Minor. 1628 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy (ed. 3) iii. iii. i. ii. 550 He is a rammy fulsome fellow, a goblin faced fellow, he smelles, he stinkes. a1652 R. Brome City Wit iv. ii. sig. E6v, in Five New Playes (1653) Thou Rammy Nastinesse. a1695 Earl of Lauderdale tr. Virgil Pastorals iii. in Wks. (1709) 11 Who can do that as easily may stroke The Rammy Goat, or subtle Foxes Yoke. 1875 Harper's Mag. Aug. 451 Had he been less of a recluse student, he would have detected in the army which produced Corbulo and Agricola something more than mere ‘rammy centurions’. 1886 R. Holland Gloss. Words County of Chester II. 281 Rammy, tasting or smelling strong like a ram. 1969 D. Griffiths Talk of my Town 28 Rammy, evil smelling. 1994 A. Kellett Yorks. Dict. 147/1 Rammy, with a strong or foul smell. 2. colloquial (chiefly U.S.). Wild, frisky; aggressive; lecherous. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > genus Ovus > [adjective] > of a ram rammy1884 1884 J. G. Bourke Snake Dance Moquis xxvii. 295 Herds of goats skipped nervously past us, the leader giving his rammy bleat of warning. 1908 S. Atlantic Q. 7 345 They still..curb a spiritedly violent horse with ‘Whoa suh! Don't get ramby!’ 1973 Evening Capital (Annapolis, Maryland) 22 Jan. 3/3 Officials are very rammy about answering queries. 1988 Z. R. Wolf Nurses' Work v. 264 They were afraid of being injured by..‘rammy combative’ patients who ‘took swings’ at the nurses. 1994 Intelligencer (Doylestown, Pa.) 23 Jan. a5/4 Long hours in front of the television can leave children feeling rammy and often afterwards acting out of control. 1999 A. Proulx Close Range 168 He's just about as rammy as he can be... I got a hard enough life I don't need a put up with a sex maniac neighbor comin at me. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1935adj.1607 |
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