单词 | shotten |
释义 | shottenadj. a. Of an arrow: Shot from a bow. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > use of bow and arrow > [adjective] > shot from bow shottena1225 a1225 Juliana 73 & tet beali blencte & breid him aȝeinwart bihinden hare schuldren as for a schoten [v.r. ischoten] arewe. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > [adjective] > wounded > shot > of wound shotten1598 1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau Frenche Chirurg. 6/2 Commonlye, shotten woundes doe not enter right, or liniallye, into the bodye, but turninge. a. Of tin: ? = shotted adj. 3. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > metal in specific state or form > [adjective] > molten > poured when molten into cold water shotten1414 shotted1796 1414 Rolls of Parl. IV. 56/1 Diverses autres Marchantz..achatent et envoyent Estayn founduz, appelle Shotentyn. 1429 Rolls of Parl. 359/1 No manere Wolle.., Lede, ne Tynne, hoole ne shoten. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > metal in specific state or form > [adjective] > other states or forms well-attempereda1460 sheet1582 unstamped1622 unplanished1683 shotten1766 calciform1782 spongy1807 cored1865 glazed1874 stamped1879 unwelded1885 solid-drawn1888 siliconized1920 inoculated1923 deep-drawn1925 stress-relieved1925 projection-welded1933 roll-formed1935 over-aged1953 scalped1958 1766 Borlase in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 56 38 The granulated surface, and shotten edge, of the metal, pronounce it..to be native tin. 3. a. Of a fish (esp. a herring): That has spawned. [Compare Dutch schoten haringh (1661 in Boekenoogen Zaansch Volkstaal at Ropziek).] ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > subclass Actinopterygii > order Clupeiformes > [adjective] > of herring that has spawned shotten1451 the world > animals > fish > [adjective] > having discharged spawn shot1414 shottenc1682 spent1864 1451 in T. Gardner Hist. Acct. Dunwich (1754) 148 Rec. of Thomas Comber 2500 full Heryns, 200 schotyn. 1593 G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation 74 His conceit [was] as lank, as a shotten herring. 1596 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1889) IV. 243 Prysez of Herynges Whyte ful v. for ijd.; shutten iij. for jd. c1682 J. Collins Salt & Fishery 154 The Shoal begins to be lean, shotten, and sick. 1863 Rep. Sea Fisheries Comm. (1865) II. 419/1 We have caught shotten fish one night, and the next they have been full of spawn. 1864 J. M. Mitchell Herring 114 Full herrings..and..empty or shotten herrings. b. transferred and figurative. In shotten herring, applied to a person who is exhausted by sickness or destitute of strength or resources (archaic) Hence gen., †Thin, emaciated; worthless, good-for-nothing. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > sick person > [noun] > weak person dwininga1400 molla1425 impotenta1513 gristlea1556 weakling1576 puler1579 puling1579 shadow1588 shotten herring1598 doddle1681 sickrel1699 seven-months1724 wandought1726 wallydraigle1736 wreck1795 werewolf1808 windlestraw1818 weed1825 shammock1828 sickling1834 forcible feeble1844 dwindle1847 weedling1849 crock1876 feebling1887 asthenic1893 dodderer1907 pencil-neck1956 burnt-out case1959 weakie1959 the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adjective] > worthless naughteOE unworthc960 nought worthOE unworthya1240 vaina1300 lewd1362 base?1510 to be nothing toc1520 stark naught1528 nothing worth1535 worthilessa1542 draffish1543 baggage1548 dunghill?1555 valureless1563 toyish1572 worthless1573 out (forth) of door (also doors)1574 leaden1577 riff-raff1577 drafty1582 fecklessc1586 dudgeon?1589 nought-worth1589 tenpenny1592 wanwordy?a1595 shotten herring1598 nugatory1603 unvalued1604 priceless1614 unvaluable1615 valuelessa1616 waste1616 trashya1620 draffy1624 stramineous1624 invaluable1640 roly-poly?1645 nugatorious1646 perquisquilian1647 niffling1649 lazy1671 wanworth1724 little wortha1754 flimsy1756 waff1788 null1790 nothingy1801 nothingly1802 twopenny-halfpenny1809 not worth a flaw1810 garbage1817 peanut1836 duffing1839 trash1843 no-account1845 no-count1851 punky1859 rummagy1872 junky1880 skilligalee1883 footle1894 punk1896 wherry-go-nimble1901 junk1908 rinky-dink1913 schlock1916 tripe1927 duff1938 chickenshit1940 sheg-up1941 expendable1942 (strictly) for the birds1943 tripey1955 schlocky1960 naff1964 dipshit1968 cack1978 the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > slim shape or physique > [adjective] > thin leanc1000 thinc1000 swonga1300 meagrea1398 empty?c1400 (as) thin (also lean, rank) as a rakec1405 macilent?a1425 rawc1425 gauntc1440 to be skin and bone (also bones)c1450 leany?a1475 swampc1480 scarrya1500 pinched1514 extenuate1528 lean-fleshed1535 carrion-lean1542 spare1548 lank1553 carrion1565 brawn-fallen1578 raw-bone1590 scraggeda1591 thin-bellied1591 rake-lean1593 bare-boned1594 forlorn1594 Lented1594 lean-looked1597 shotten herring1598 spiny1598 starved1598 thin-belly1598 raw-boned1600 larbar1603 meagry?1603 fleshless1605 scraggy1611 ballow1612 lank-leana1616 skinnya1616 hagged1616 scraggling1616 carrion-like1620 extenuated1620 thin-gutted1620 haggard1630 scrannel1638 leanisha1645 skeletontal1651 overlean1657 emaciated1665 slank1668 lathy1672 emaciate1676 nithered1691 emacerated1704 lean-looking1713 scranky1735 squinny-gut(s)1742 mauger1756 squinny1784 angular1789 etiolated1791 as thin (also lean) as a rail1795 wiry1808 slink1817 scranny1820 famine-hollowed1822 sharp featured1824 reedy1830 scrawny1833 stringy1833 lean-ribbeda1845 skeletony1852 famine-pinched1856 shelly1866 flesh-fallen1876 thinnish1884 all horn and hide1890 unfurnished1893 bone-thin1899 underweight1899 asthenic1925 skin-and-bony1935 skinny-malinky1940 skeletal1952 pencil-neck1960 1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 ii. v. 129 If manhood, good manhood be not forgot vpon the face of the earth, then am I a shotten herring . View more context for this quotation 1617 Let. 31 Jan. (India Office Libr. MS E/3/2/442) f. 170 [The factories] ad to their rotten and shotten [goods] and demynish (or take away) such as is vendable. a1625 J. Fletcher Women Pleas'd ii. iv, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Dddddd3/1 What Penurio, My shotten friend, what winde blew you? 1662 R. Mathews Unlearned Alchymist (new ed.) 14 He looked shotten and wan, as one that had been sick. 1825 W. Cobbett Rural Rides in Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 19 Nov. 452 Come and look at this poor, shotten-herring of a creature. 4. Blood-shot. quasi-archaic. (Cf. blood-shotten adj. and n.) ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > [adjective] > bloodshot bloodshota1450 blood-shottenc1450 shottenc1460 sanguinous1490 bloodshed1583 sanguined1700 blood-run1703 blood-discoloured1871 c1460 Compl. Criste 401 in Pol. Rel. & L. Poems (1903) 218 They [my eyes] been shotyn [earlier text blood-schoten] with ffleschely luste. 1858 C. Kingsley Red King 36 His eyne were shotten, as red as blood. 5. dialect. Of milk: Sour, curdled. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dairy produce > [adjective] > relating to milk > soured sourc1000 welledOE shotten1671 1671 S. Skinner & T. Henshaw Etymologicon Linguæ Anglicanæ Shotten milk, nobis Lac vetustate Coagulatum. 1886 R. E. G. Cole Gloss. Words S.-W. Lincs. Shotten-milk, milk turned sour and curdled... Still understood here, but almost out of use. DerivativesΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adverb] > worthlessly noughtsa1393 worthlessly1637 shottenly1661 trashily1836 rubbishingly1837 1661 K. W. Confused Characters 97 But as shottenly as he looks, he's a notable crafty fox in his way. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.a1225 |
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