单词 | screenge |
释义 | screengev. Scottish and Irish English (northern). 1. transitive. To flog, scourge, or beat. Now rare. Sc. National Dict. (at Screenge) records this sense as still in use in Aberdeenshire and Banffshire in 1969. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > administer corporal punishment [verb (transitive)] > beat threshOE beatc1000 to lay on?c1225 chastise1362 rapa1400 dressc1405 lack?c1475 paya1500 currya1529 coil1530 cuff1530 baste1533 thwack1533 lick1535 firka1566 trounce1568 fight1570 course1585 bumfeage1589 feague1589 lamback1589 lambskin1589 tickle1592 thrash1593 lam1595 bumfeagle1598 comb1600 fer1600 linge1600 taw1600 tew1600 thrum1604 feeze1612 verberate1614 fly-flap1620 tabor1624 lambaste1637 feak1652 flog1676 to tan (a person's) hide1679 slipper1682 liquora1689 curry-comb1708 whack1721 rump1735 screenge1787 whale1790 lather1797 tat1819 tease1819 larrup1823 warm1824 haze1825 to put (a person) through a course of sprouts1839 flake1841 swish1856 hide1875 triangle1879 to give (a person or thing) gyp1887 soak1892 to loosen (a person's) hide1902 society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > administer corporal punishment [verb (transitive)] > whip or scourge swingc725 scourc1386 whipc1386 lash1398 bescourgea1400 swaipa1400 flail14.. belash1458 stripec1460 leash1503 flagelle1551 swingea1556 breech1573 lace1599 flagellate1623 slash1631 chawbuck1682 innocentize1708 swepe1710 belace1736 screenge1787 yedder1818 stock-whip1852 rawhide1858 1787 J. Elphinston Propriety Ascertained II. v. 196 Pine, hwine, screen, bec and smug, form dhe Scottish diminnutives pinge, hwinge, scringe (thwac), binge (cringe), and smudge (smuggel a smile). 1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Skreenge, to scourge, to flog. 1878 R. Ford Hame-spun Lays & Lyrics 81 An' 'cause I leuch, an' scratch'd my pow, He screeng'd me wi' a sauchin'. 1925 J. Alexander in Sc. National Dict. (1971) VIII. 84/1 [Aberdeenshire] They will speak of ‘screengin' a bodie roon' the lugs’. 1953 M. Traynor Eng. Dial. Donegal 246/2 Scringe, to flog. 2. transitive. To rub or scrub energetically. Now rare.In quot. 1997 with adjective as complement. ΚΠ 1815 W. Gardiner Poems & Songs 11 in Sc. National Dict. (1971) VIII. 83/3 The muckle d—l tak' an' scringe The coof wha crouches, Ay wi' a gallant heather ringe. 1824 J. Mactaggart Sc. Gallovidian Encycl. 423 Scrubbers, articles made of heather, for scrynging naps. 1866 W. Gregor Dial. Banffshire (Philol. Soc.) 163 Skreenge, to rub with force. 1997 R. Fairnie Scots Tung Wittins (SCOTS) No. 44 The tatties..are screenged clean as a bairn's face on its furst day at the scuil. 3. transitive. To search or scour (a place). Also intransitive.In quot. 1935 figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > endeavour > searching or seeking > search for or seek [verb (transitive)] > search (a place) seekc1230 searcha1382 lay1560 ferret1582 sift1611 inquire?1615 hunt1712 screenge1825 1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. 408/1 To Skreenge, Screenge... To search for eagerly, to glean. 1901 S. MacManus in Pearson's Mag. Jan. 50/2 When the river was dragged and the country screenged and sarched from end to wynd, thrace or thrack wasn't got of him. 1935 W. Soutar Poems in Scots 29 Aft, or a man may win richt ben To screenge his sel's sel', doun he snools To death. 1994 K. Ferguson Maid's Tale vi. 171 He had me screenging for this and that, things I hadn't set eyes on in twenty years. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1787 |
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