单词 | rhyme rotten |
释义 | rhyme rottenadj. Editorial misreading of the source of quot. 1599 (in A. Dyck's edition, which formed part of the fifth volume of the Percy Society's Early Eng. Poetry, Ballads, & Pop. Lit. of Middle Ages (1841)) as showing rime rotten, taken by N.E.D. (1909) as the adjective rime-rotten. ΚΠ 1599 H. Porter Pleasant Hist. Two Angrie Women of Abington sig. D4v Speake men what they can to him, hee'l answere With some rime, rotten sentence, or olde saying. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online September 2017). < adj.1599 |
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