单词 | screeve |
释义 | screevev.1 Scottish and Irish English (northern) after Middle English. 1. transitive. To peel or tear off (something). Also: to scrape or scratch (something, esp. the skin). ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > rubbing or friction > rub [verb (transitive)] > scrape shavec725 shrapec1000 claw1377 screeve?1440 scartc1480 gratec1530 rape1533 ruffle1615 corrade1646 comb1654 rasp1707 scrape1731 skin1795 scuff1897 the world > space > place > removal or displacement > remove or displace [verb (transitive)] > remove or take away > remove or displace by scratching, scraping, stripping, or cutting bestrip1065 file?c1225 to cut awayc1320 raze1419 screeve?1440 rakec1475 to scrape out, forth1530 scrata1560 scrabble1657 scamble1707 peel1787 tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) iii. l. 1127 Clene away the pith of hit [sc. graft] the[y] screue [L. medulla..sublata]. 1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. (at cited word) To scrieve, to scratch; to scrape, to peel. 1865 J. Young Homely Pictures in Verse 12 The vail, ne'er closely drawn, Has, by Auld Time's unsparin' haun, Been screiv't aside. 1904 S. R. Crockett Raiderland vi. 112 He would learn us to gillravage athort the kintra screevin' the verra soles off our boots! 1936 J. G. Horne Flooer o' Ling 9 The finks an' peewits screeve the cluds. 1969 Countryman Spring 43 Scots farmer to son who had screeved his fingers with turnip masher: ‘Ay, ma loon, machinery is nae tae be mocket.’ 2013 @Wayisee 7 May in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) I've screeved my knuckles hand washing. 2. intransitive. To make a scraping sound or motion. ΚΠ 1842 R. M. Stupart Harp of Strila 63 Their rattlin' feet, the time aye keep, Unto the fiddle screivin'. 1925 E. C. Smith Mang Howes 4 A chairkin road-injin, skreevin an skrauchin leike a skartin skeelie on a skuil sklate. 1928 ‘M. Mulcaghey’ Ballymulcaghey ii. 25 Tam was screevin' at the oul' fiddle. 1955 Sc. National Dict. (1971) VIII. (at cited word) I overheard someone ask a girl why she hadn't brought her bicycle with her and she replied ‘It's screevin terrible.’ 1990 J. A. Begg in J. A. Begg & J. Reid Dipper & Three Wee Deils 83 While music, art, an poetrie dear, Enrich the mind, An ither, ugsome, cantraips queer Screive, screich, an grind! 1996 C. I. Macafee Conc. Ulster Dict. 291/1 Screeve, scrieve,..make a noise that sets the teeth on edge. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online June 2022). † screevev.2 Obsolete. 1. intransitive. Of the heart: to break or burst with sorrow. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > mental anguish or torment > broken-heartedness > break (of the heart) [verb (intransitive)] burst?c1225 breakc1405 rivea1425 screevec1450 c1450 in Englische Studien (1925) 59 14 (MED) Ye speke so moche that noon may yow leve..This causeth eche trewe hert for woo to skreve That heren thus speken of youre properte. 2. intransitive. In early use: (of an unhealed wound) to open. In later use (English regional (midlands)): to ooze, to exude moisture. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > discharge or flux > discharge [verb (intransitive)] > discharge putrid matter matterc1465 screevea1500 gleet1676 a1500 (?a1400) Morte Arthur (1903) l. 382 His woundis scryved and stille he lay And in his bedde he swownyd thrye. 1882 J. H. Nodal & G. Milner Gloss. Lancs. Dial.: Pt. II Screeve, to froth at the mouth as in a fit. 1886 R. Holland Gloss. Words County of Chester Screeve, to ooze out, to exude moisture. 1887 T. Darlington Folk-speech S. Cheshire 331 A sack of corn may screive; liquid manure in a pigsty is said to screive out. But the word is specially used of moisture exuding from a corpse. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2021). screevev.3 English regional (Lincolnshire). transitive (in passive). Of a horse: to lose its footing on ice and fall with its legs splayed outwards, causing them to break or become dislocated.Apparently Obsolete except as implied in screeved adj. at Derivatives. ΚΠ 1799 A. Young Gen. View Agric. County Lincoln xi. 233 In both East and Wildmore Fens the poor horses, called Wildmore titts, get on the ice in winter, and are screeved; that is, their legs spreading outward, the wretched animals are split. Derivatives screeved adj. ΚΠ 1896 W. H. Wheeler Hist. Fens S. Lincs. (ed. 2) App. iv. 12 Screeved, a term used to describe an accident which occasionally happened to horses in the fens when, running over ice in winter, their legs became parted and torn off at the joint. 1896 J. T. Bealby Daughter of Fen viii. 67 Half-a-dozen people are gathered round a ‘screeved’ horse; the poor brute's legs have glided so wide apart on the slippery ice that they have snapped in two. 1995 J. M. Sims-Kimbrey Wodds & Doggerybaw: Lincs. Dial. Dict. 260/1 Screãved/Screeved, dislocated. The word used for the injury, much less common now, which once occurred fairly frequently to horses in the Fens during the winter freezes. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). screevev.4 slang. 1. intransitive. To draw or write on paving stones; esp. to create pictures on paving stones, typically using coloured chalks and frequently in order to earn money from passers-by. Cf. screever n. 1. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > painting according to medium or technique > paint according to medium or technique [verb (intransitive)] > be pavement artist screeve1841 1841 [implied in: Exposure of Impositions practised by Vagrants 28 Cadger's screeving. There are many cadgers who write short sentences with chalk on the flags. (at screeving n.2)]. 1876 J. H. Ewing Jan of Windmill xxxi. 302 A street-artist who was ‘screeving’, or drawing pictures on the pavement in coloured chalks. 1933 ‘G. Orwell’ Down & Out xxx. 223 ‘But isn't it very hard to take an interest in things—things like stars—living this life?’ ‘Screeving, you mean? Not necessarily.’ 2010 M. Meadows Insider Art viii. 152/2 A down-and-out screeving in front of the Tate Modern. 2. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > [verb (transitive)] awriteeOE writeOE speak?c1225 paintc1400 conscribec1487 blecka1500 cipher1565 letter1570 characterize1581 character1589 bewrite1660 scriven1680 quill1768 screeve1851 1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 246/1 Ah! once I could ‘screeve a fakement’ (write a petition). 1857 A. Mayhew Paved with Gold (1858) iii. iii. 269 His false petitions were highly esteemed, and he enjoyed the reputation of being a first-rate fist at ‘screeving a fakement’, through, owing to his forged signatures having been too often detected, he was declared to be ‘a duffer at coopering a monekur’. 1859 J. C. Hotten Dict. Slang 88 Screeve, to write, or devise; ‘to screeve a fakement’, to concoct or write a begging letter, or other impostor's document. ?1863 Story Lancs. Thief 9 He made many a quid by screeving fakements to order, and his customers made more by taking them to market. b. intransitive. To write; spec. to write false or exaggerated things. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > [verb (intransitive)] awriteeOE writeOE scrievec1390 to drive a pen (also quill)1788 pen-and-ink1801 screeve1851 pen1904 1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 291/1 The newspapers ‘screeved’ about Rush, and his mother, and his wife; but we, in our patter, made him confess to having murdered his old grandmother fourteen years back. 1937 ‘J. Curtis’ You're in Racket, Too xxvi. 264 Does that look like my writing? I can't screeve as classy as all that. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1?1440v.2c1450v.31799v.41841 |
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