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单词 run devil
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run devil
6. Scottish. Complete, out-and-out, thoroughgoing. Only in run devil. Obsolete.Frequently after Robert Burns (see quots. 17861, 17862).
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the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adjective] > utter or absolute > of something bad or reprobated > of a person
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1786 R. Burns Twa Dogs xxxiii, in Poems 21 But hear their absent thoughts o' ither They're a run deils an' jads thegither.
1786 R. Burns Inventory in Wks. (1816) III. 298 For men, I've three mischievous boys, Run deils for rantin and for noise.
1827 Aberdeen Star 20 July 313 That confoundit trash o' whisky, which maks them delerious an' run deels a' thegither.
1827 W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd 158 The farrest aff, as much fear-fangit Like run-de'ils boltit aff and spangit.
1862 A. Hislop Prov. Scotl. 129 Jock's a mislear'd imp, but ye're a run-deil.
a1867 W. Gairdner Glengoyne (1900) I. ii. 19 Fine I mind fan I lundered you an' anither lathie, Rob Collie, fa was mair o' a run deil nor you.
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