单词 | scottify |
释义 | Scottifyv. transitive. To make Scottish; to convert into a form of English used in Scotland, usually Scots (cf. Scots n. 1). Also: to give a Scottish form to (a word, name, etc.). ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > British nation > Scots nation > [verb (transitive)] Scotize1651 Scottify1651 Scotticize1763 Scotchify1825 1651 H. M. in T. Vaughan Second Wash sig. A5v And yet he's no Enthusiast, nor ally'd To Indepencie, but Scotified. 1764 T. Percy Let. 11 Feb. in Percy Lett. (1954) IV. 65 If I have not sufficiently succeeded in Scotifying the English stanzas, I beg your unsparing corrections. 1773 J. Boswell Jrnl. 18 Aug. in Jrnl. Tour Hebrides (1785) 50 I insisted on scottifying his [sc. Dr. Johnson's] palate; but he was very reluctant. With difficulty I prevailed with him to let a bit of one of those speldings lye in his mouth. He did not like it. 1869 F. J. Furnivall in H. Gilbert Queene Elizabethes Achademy Forewords p. xvii The conclusion then forced on me was, that Adam Loutfut..had copied the poem from an original, and scottified it as he copied. 1881 Athenæum 8 Jan. 55/3 The chap-books sold by Scotch pedlars at the annual Lammas Fair of Kirkwall [Orkney] played an important part in Scottifying the vernacular. 1921 Law Notes June 59/2 (heading) Scottifying Shakespeare. 1996 I. L. McHarg Quest for Life i. 7 [They] decided to reverse the name from Graham to Maharg and thereafter scottified it to McHarg. Derivatives ˈScottifying n. rare a Scottish version of a word. ΚΠ 1902 G. G. Smith Specimens of Middle Scots p. xxxv It may be a ‘Scotifying’ of S[outhern] those. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1651 |
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