单词 | shrove |
释义 | Shroven. Obsolete exc. dialect. Shrovetide, or the merrymaking connected therewith. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > specific Christian festivals > Sunday before Lent > [noun] > period following > first week of > Sunday, Monday, Tuesday of Shrovetidec1425 carnival1549 Shrove1579 fast mass1812 Fasching1911 1579 in A. Feuillerat Documents Office of Revels Queen Elizabeth (1908) 327 During Christmas..& Shrove. 1621 R. Brathwait Shepheards Tales in Natures Embassie 178 In their wakes, shroues, wassel-cups, or tides. 1913 19th Cent. July 133 Nora was to marry Tom Mahony next Shrove. CompoundsCategories » shrove-cake n. a small cake made to give children who go shroving (Halliwell, 1847). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting or baiting animals > cock-throwing > [noun] > cock shroving cock1629 shrove-cock1659 Shrove Tuesday cock1697 Shrovetide cock1700 the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Phasianidae (pheasants, etc.) > hen or cock > [noun] > cock > used in festivals shroving cock1629 shrove-cock1659 Shrove Tuesday cock1697 Shrovetide cock1700 1659 Lady Alimony v. ii. sig. I4 O ye pittiful Simpletons, who spend your days in throwing Cudgels at Jack a Lents or Shrove-Cocks. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > unruliness > disorder or riot > [noun] > action or behaviour of gangs of hooligans > member of gang of hooligans whitecap1607 shrove-prentice1638 Mohock?1711 sweater1712 highbinder1806 hoodlum1871 hooligan1898 hood1930 skolly1934 tear-away1938 gunsel1942 Teddy boy1954 hell's angel1956 angel1965 bikie1967 skinhead1969 bovver boy1970 boot-boy1977 casual1980 1638 W. Davenant Madagascar 29 More cruell than Shrove-Prentices, when they (Drunk in a Brothell House) are bid to pay. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2022). shrovev. Obsolete exc. dialect. intransitive. To keep Shrovetide; to make merry. Often in (to go) a-shroving (locally applied to the practice of going round singing for money on Shrove Tuesday). ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > specific Christian festivals > Sunday before Lent > [verb (intransitive)] > observe Shrove customs shrove1577 1577 R. Stanyhurst Hist. Irelande iii. 104/1 in R. Holinshed Chron. I He trauayled to Rome a shrouing, of set purpose to be merrie. 1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. P2v To certefie him, that verie shortly hee would send him a couple of Hennes to Shroue with. 1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Berlingaccione, one that loueth to shroue euer and make good cheere. 1620 in R. F. Williams Birch's Court & Times James I (1849) (modernized text) II. 198 Those ladies have invited them to a masque..so that on Thursday next, the king, prince, and all the court go thither a shroving. a1625 J. Fletcher Noble Gentleman iii. ii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Ee2/2 To see him stated thus, as though he went A shroving through the City. 1655 J. Howell 4th Vol. Familiar Lett. vii. 22 Hans Boobikin a rich Boors Son, whom his Father had sent abroad a Fryring, that is, Shroving in our Language. [See also shroving n.] This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1579v.1577 |
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