单词 | scottishman |
释义 | Scottishmann.ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > Celtic people > [noun] > ancient Scot ScoteOE Scottishmana1387 Irish Gael1771 eOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Parker) anno 891 Þrie Scottas comon to Ęlfrede cyninge on anum bate butan ęlcum gereþrum of Hibernia [lOE Domitian A.viii Yrlande]... Þa comon hie..to londe on Cornwalum.] a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1876) VI. 389 Þe Scottyshe men [L. Scotici viri]..took a carabum..and wente þerynne wonderliche..witþoute rope and ore..and come alonde in Cornewayle. 2. = Scotsman n. 1. Cf. Scotchman n. 1. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > British nation > Scots nation > [noun] > native or inhabitant of Scotland ScoteOE rivlin?c1300 bere-bag1352 Scotchman1407 Scottishman1429 Scotsman?c1450 blue cap1598 North Britain1604 Jockc1641 Jacky1653 Whiglander1682 Albanian1685 sawneya1704 North Briton1718 Caledonian1768 Sandy1785 Scotchy1832 Scotty1851 haggis bag1892 haggis-eater1937 1429–30 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VI (Electronic ed.) Parl. Sept. 1429 §63. m. 2 No Scottysshman wil be so advised, in disceit of his soveraigne lorde, or in hynderyng þe commen profit of Scotland, to bryng any goodys or merchandise into þis roiaume. 1523 Earl of Surrey in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1824) 1st Ser. I. 215 Bothe with thies contreymen and Scottishmen. 1548 W. Patten Exped. Scotl. G vij The Scottish~mens pykes wear as long or lenger then their staues. a1572 J. Knox Hist. Reformation Scotl. in Wks. (1846) I. 292 The proffeit, that was judged heirof to haue ensewed to Scotishmen. 1632 Swedish Intelligencer i. 86 One Scottish-man protested he had kill'd 18 men with his owne hand. a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Berks. 87 The grave, sage and reduced Scotish-men in this Age. 1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random II. xlii. 47 (heading) We are accosted by a priest, who proves to be a Scottishman. 1777 J. Nicolson & R. Burn Hist. Westmorland & Cumberland I. p. cxxvii It is agreed, that old feuds shall be put to agreement, or else the party offending to lie by it, viz. Englishmen in Edinburgh, and Scottishmen in Newcastle, until they will agree. 1808 W. Scott in J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Scott (1837) I. i. 2 Every Scottishman has a pedigree. 1832 W. Scott Castle Dangerous xvii, in Tales of my Landlord 4th Ser. (N.Y. ed.) I. 188 It seems almost unnatural for Scottishmen and English to meet and part without a buffet. 1983 A. Gray Unlikely Stories (1984) 155 It is the greater readiness of Scottishmen to adventure abroad..that is our nation's ruin. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1387 |
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