单词 | rory |
释义 | Roryn. slang. rare. 1. A door. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > [noun] > door doorOE entry door1526 jigger1567 magazine door1646 main door1825 Rory1892 Rory O'More1894 1892 ‘Doss Chiderdoss’ in Sporting Times 29 Oct. 1/2 I fired him out of the Rory quick. 1936 ‘J. Curtis’ Gilt Kid xviii. 178 Some lousy berk must have been snooping around the place and found that rory open. 2. The floor. Chiefly in on the Rory: (figurative) poor, penniless. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > floor > [noun] fleta1000 floorc1000 floorth1303 loftingc1540 contignation1592 loft1596 contabulation1615 flooring1624 planchera1825 contablature1827 ground1847 Rory O'More1857 floor level1874 Rory1938 1938 F. D. Sharpe Sharpe of Flying Squad 332 On the Rory, penniless. 1973 B. Aylwin Load of Cockney Cobblers x. 49 Rory O'More, floor or door, Rory. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † roryadj. Obsolete. rare (chiefly poetic). Dewy. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > precipitation or atmospheric moisture > dew > [adjective] dewyc1000 rorid?a1425 dewish1589 rory1596 roral1601 bedewy1607 roscid1626 1596 in W. Barley New Bk. Tabliture sig. A4v Alas like flowers of Spaine, thy graces rorie be, I pricke these hands of mine for haste to gather thee. 1600 E. Fairfax tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne i. xiv. 4 On Libanon at first his foote he set, And shooke his wings with roarie May-dewes wet. 1629 F. Quarles Argalus & Parthenia iii. 119 A Crowne of burnisht Gold, beshaded o're With Foggs and rory mists. a1739 S. Wesley Poems Several Occasions (1743) 121 Vocal their Harps no more, in rory Damp Moulders the lifeless, ever-living Choir. 1757 W. Thompson Poems Several Occasions II. iv. 281 Thy Couch of Poppies! steal thyself on me, (In rory Mists suffus'd and Clouds of Gold). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1892adj.1596 |
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