单词 | rudas |
释义 | rudasn.adj. Scottish. derogatory. An ugly, bad-mannered, belligerent (old) woman; a harridan; a hag. Frequently modified by old. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > [noun] > unmannerliness > unrefined manners or behaviour > person > woman rouncival1596 rudas1725 1725 A. Ramsay Gentle Shepherd iv. i. 59 Ye leed, auld Roudes! 1776 Anc. & Mod. Sc. Songs (ed. 2) Gloss. 263 Roudas, a term of reproach for an old woman. 1824 W. Scott Redgauntlet III. vii. 214 I followed the auld rudas through twa Courts. 1846 W. Cross Disruption xxiii. 244 What can the auld roudas want wi' me? 1868 J. Riddell Aberdeen & its Folk i. 5 In came..a dreadful rudas, the terror of all the infant population of the town, Jean Carr. B. adj. Characteristic of a rudas; hag-like, ugly; (of a woman) bad-mannered, belligerent. Frequently in conjunction with old. Now rare and archaic. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > [adjective] > ill-mannered > unrefined boistousc1300 untheweda1325 uplandisha1387 unaffiled1390 rudea1393 knavishc1405 peoplisha1425 clubbedc1440 blunt1477 lob?1507 robust1511 borel1513 carterly1519 clubbish1530 rough?1531 rustical?1532 incondite1539 agrestc1550 rusticc1550 brute1555 lobcocka1556 loutisha1556 carterlike1561 boorish1562 ruggedc1565 lobbish1567 loutlike1567 sowish1570 clownish1581 unrefined1582 impolished1583 homespun1590 transalpinea1592 swaddish1593 unpolished1594 untutored1595 swabberly1596 tartarous1602 porterly1603 lobcocked1606 lob-like1606 cluster-fisted1611 agrestic1617 inurbane1623 unelevated1627 incult1628 unbrushed1640 vulgar1643 unhewed1644 unsmooth1648 hirsute1658 loutardly1658 unhewn1659 roughsome?c1660 sordid1668 inhumanea1680 coarse1699 brutal1709 ramgunshoch1721 tramontane1740 uncouth1740 no-nationa1756 unurbane1760 turnipy1792 rudas1802 common1804 cubbish1819 clodhopping1828 vulgarian1833 cloddish1844 unkempt1846 bush1851 vulgarish1860 rodney1866 crude1876 ignorant1886 yobby1910 nekulturny1932 oikish1959 yobbish1966 ocker1972 down and dirty1977 the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > ill-naturedness > ill nature in woman or shrewishness > [adjective] shrew1297 shrewda1387 scoldinga1533 shrewish?1566 cotquean-like1581 virago1598 vixena1660 termagant1668 vixenlya1677 calleting1691 rudas1802 termagantish1823 vixenish1828 1802 in W. Scott Minstrelsy Sc. Border II. 125 She has put it to her roudes lip, And to her roudes chin. 1816 W. Scott Antiquary II. x*. 283 The auld carline (a rudas wife she was). 1817 W. Scott Rob Roy III. ii. 41 That auld rudas jaud of a gudewife. 1856 G. Henderson Pop. Rhymes Berwick 57 Rudous wives, grim, gaunt, and stark. a1894 R. L. Stevenson Weir of Hermiston (1896) viii. 247 But I was young, dear,..and little I dreamed I'd ever be tellin' ye this, an auld, lanely, rudas wife! 1918 J. Buchan Watcher at Threshold iv. 208 While honest men slept in their beds, the auld rudas carlines took their pleasure. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1725 |
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