单词 | redd up |
释义 | > as lemmasredd up 4. Scottish, Irish English (northern), English regional (northern), and (in later use) U.S. regional (esp. Pennsylvania). Put in order, arranged; neat, tidy, clean. Formerly frequently in attributive use, now usually predicative, and only in redd up. Occasionally modified by ill or well. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > [adjective] > tidy queemc1450 trig1513 trimc1521 neat1594 polite1602 terse1602 unlittered1612 ship-shape1644 snod1717 tight1720 redd1753 (as) neat (also clean) as a (new) pin1769 mack1825 tidy1828 slick1833 ship-shapely1843 trimly1858 taut1870 1753 Ulster Misc. 376 She smiling heard me speak my mind Wi' broken sighs, and ill redd phrase. 1762 A. Dickson Treat. Agric. ii. xi. 216 The plough that..makes the best work, is the one that makes a redd fur below. 1765 A. Dickson Treat. Agric. (ed. 2) i. xv. 124 A strong-made Scots plough, with a well redd beam. 1838 A. Rodger Poems & Songs 293 A weel redd-up housie, a snug elbow chair. 1855 E. C. Gaskell North & South II. xi. 142 Mrs. Boucher was sitting in a rocking-chair on the other side of the ill-redd-up fireplace. 1890 M. Oliphant Kirsteen I. xiv. 243 Come into my bonny kitchen that is all redd up and like a new pin, and get a good warm. 1951 S. H. Bell December Bride i. v. 44 When the last trap had disappeared Agnes Sampson went back across the close. ‘We'd better be getting redd up, for they'll be coming back soon,’ she said. 2007 Pittsburgh (Pa.) Tribune Rev. (Nexis) 3 Dec. Mayor Luke Ravenstahl—champion of all things ‘redd up’—acknowledges the inglorious but necessary job of sweeping the city's streets isn't getting done. < as lemmas |
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