单词 | scoup |
释义 | scoupv. Chiefly Scottish. 1. intransitive. To bound, caper, skip. Of an animal: to go with leaps and bounds. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > leaping, springing, or jumping > leap, spring, or jump [verb (intransitive)] > caper leapc900 playOE floxec1200 startlec1300 trancec1374 prancec1380 tripc1386 scoupa1400 prankc1450 gambol1508 frisk?1520 jeta1529 pract1568 trounce1568 trip1578 capriole1580 lavolta1590 linch1593 curvet1595 flisk1595 firk1596 caper1598 jaunce1599 risec1599 cabre1600 jaunt1605 skit1611 to cut a caper or capersa1616 tripudiate1623 insult1652 to fike and flinga1689 scamper1691 dance1712 pranklea1717 cavort1794 jinket1823 gambado1827 caracol1861 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 23569 Mony þingis may we do Þat better were vndone þen so As for to scoupe [Vesp. skip, Fairf. 14 lepe, Gött. schope] & to ryn Whenne bettur tyme were to blyn. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 699/2 I scoupe, as a lyon or a tygre dothe, whan he doth folowe his pray, je vas par saultées. I have sene a leoparde scoupe after a bucke. 1597 A. Montgomerie Cherrie & Slae (ed. 2) 23 The Hart, the Hynd, the Dae, the Rae,..War skowping [ed. 1 skippand] all fra brae to brae Amang the water broxe. 1718 A. Ramsay Lucky Spence's Last Advice 2 But daut Red Coats, and let them scoup Free, for the fou of Cutty Stoup. 1721 A. Ramsay Elegy Patie Birnie vi The corky cowp That to the Papists' country scowp, To lear' ha, ha's. 1735 A. Ramsay Addr. Thanks from Society of Rakes 4 Lads..Scowp around like Tups and Bulls. 1739 A. Nicol Nature without Art 87 Your Head's sae fu' o canty Tales That scoups o'er many Muirs and Dales. 1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian i, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. III. 12 ‘Wha the de'il are ye?’ said the fat dame to poor Jeanie,..‘scouping about a decent house at sic an hour in the morning?’ 2. phr. ΚΠ a1802 Ld. Thomas & Fair Annie xv, in F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads (1885) II. iii. 70/1 The shame [i.e. the Devil] scoup in his company. 1824 W. Scott Redgauntlet I. xi. 226 De'il scowp wi' Redgauntlet! Derivatives ˈscouping n. ΚΠ 1593 B. Barnes Parthenophil & Parthenophe 119 To see the frisking, and scouping. ˈscouper n. ΚΠ a1572 J. Knox Hist. Reformation Scotl. in Wks. (1848) II. 416 Witnes the Lordschip of Abercorne,..and diverse utheris..gyffin in heritage to scouparis, dansaris, and dalliaris with damis. a1585 Ld. Polwart Flyting with Montgomerie 757 Land lowper, light skowper, ragged rowper like a raven. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.a1400 |
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