† skireadj.

Forms: Middle English skir, Middle English, 1700s–1800s skire; Middle English–1500s, 1800s skyre, Middle English skyr.

Etymology: < Old Norse skírr (Norwegian and Middle Swedish skir ) clear, pure, = Old English scír shire adj. In later use only Scots

Obsolete.

1. Clear of, free from, something morally bad.

ΚΠ

c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 12194 All þatt ahhte off eorþliȝ þing. Þatt godess þeowwess haffdenn..i þiss middell ærd Iss all skir fra þe deofell.

c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 8015 Þatt genge. þatt wass milde. & mec..& off galnesse skir. & fre.

a. Of water: Pure, clear.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > liquid > water > [adjective] > properties or characteristics of water > pure or clear

livingeOE

fairOE

purec1300

cleara1400

skirea1400

crystalc1425

lucent1820

a1400–50 Alexander 2119 Scamandra þe slire [read skire: Dubl. skyr] flode þe scriptour it callis.

c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness l. 1776 Þay..Asscaped ouer þe skyre watteres & scaþed þe walles.

b. Of colours, flames, etc.: Clear; bright.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > light > intensity of light > [adjective] > bright

shininga900

lighteOE

lightlyOE

sheenOE

torhtOE

shirea1000

steepa1000

shimmeringc1000

brightOE

strongOE

clear1297

fair?a1300

bright-shininga1387

merrya1393

skirea1400

lucident14..

shimc1400

staringc1400

luculentc1420

splendent1474

illuminousc1485

lucentc1500

bloominga1522

sheer1565

prelucent1568

faculent1575

splendant1578

lucid1591

neat1591

shine1596

translucent1596

well-lighted1606

nitid1615

lucible1623

dilucid1653

translucid1657

hard1660

the world > matter > colour > quality of colour > [adjective] > vivid or bright

brightOE

skirea1400

livelyc1425

quickc1425

freshlyc1426

flamingc1450

vive1591

florid1642

vivid1665

hot1673

living1699

aurorean1880

vibrant1971

a1400–50 Alexander 467 To skyre skarlet hewe skyftis hire face.

c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 12500 [The lightning] skirmyt in the skewes with a skyre low.

a1585 Ld. Polwart Flyting with Montgomerie 533 With flying fyreflaughts burning bright and skyre [v.r. schyre].

3. Conspicuous or notable, esp. in respect of harmful qualities.This sense, which appears only in the Destr. Troy (cf. also ll. 12700 and 13616) is probably due to the requirements of alliteration.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > infamy or notoriety > [adjective]

infamousc1380

unfamousc1380

famousa1425

infamed1520

skirec1540

notorious1549

infame1555

stigmatical1591

unsilent1597

exemplifieda1637

flagrant1706

flagitious1741

dreaded1810

c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 8897 In anythyng..Þat hase skapet vs to skathe, ne to skyre harme.

c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 13397 Ascatus the skir, þat skathill was in elde.

4. (See quot. 1825 and cf. skire adv.)

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > [adjective] > insanity or madness > affected with

woodc725

woodsekc890

giddyc1000

out of (by, from, of) wit or one's witc1000

witlessc1000

brainsickOE

amadc1225

lunaticc1290

madc1330

sickc1340

brain-wooda1375

out of one's minda1387

frenetica1398

fonda1400

formada1400

unwisea1400

brainc1400

unwholec1400

alienate?a1425

brainless1434

distract of one's wits1470

madfula1475

furious1475

distract1481

fro oneself1483

beside oneself1490

beside one's patience1490

dementa1500

red-wood?1507

extraught1509

misminded1509

peevish1523

bedlam-ripe1525

straughta1529

fanatic1533

bedlama1535

daft1540

unsounda1547

stark raving (also staring) mad1548

distraughted1572

insane1575

acrazeda1577

past oneself1576

frenzy1577

poll-mad1577

out of one's senses1580

maddeda1586

frenetical1588

distempered1593

distraught1597

crazed1599

diswitted1599

idle-headed1599

lymphatical1603

extract1608

madling1608

distracteda1616

informala1616

far gone1616

crazy1617

March mada1625

non compos mentis1628

brain-crazed1632

demented1632

crack-brained1634

arreptitiousa1641

dementate1640

dementated1650

brain-crackeda1652

insaniated1652

exsensed1654

bedlam-witteda1657

lymphatic1656

mad-like1679

dementative1685

non compos1699

beside one's gravity1716

hyte1720

lymphated1727

out of one's head1733

maddened1735

swivel-eyed1758

wrong1765

brainsickly1770

fatuous1773

derangedc1790

alienated1793

shake-brained1793

crack-headed1796

flighty1802

wowf1802

doitrified1808

phrenesiac1814

bedlamite1815

mad-braineda1822

fey1823

bedlamitish1824

skire1825

beside one's wits1827

as mad as a hatter1829

crazied1842

off one's head1842

bemadded1850

loco1852

off one's nut1858

off his chump1864

unsane1867

meshuga1868

non-sane1868

loony1872

bee-headed1879

off one's onion1881

off one's base1882

(to go) off one's dot1883

locoed1885

screwy1887

off one's rocker1890

balmy or barmy on (or in) the crumpet1891

meshuggener1892

nutty1892

buggy1893

bughouse1894

off one's pannikin1894

ratty1895

off one's trolley1896

batchy1898

twisted1900

batsc1901

batty1903

dippy1903

bugs1904

dingy1904

up the (also a) pole1904

nut1906

nuts1908

nutty as a fruitcake1911

bugged1920

potty1920

cuckoo1923

nutsy1923

puggled1923

blah1924

détraqué1925

doolally1925

off one's rocket1925

puggle1925

mental1927

phooey1927

crackers1928

squirrelly1928

over the edge1929

round the bend1929

lakes1934

ding-a-ling1935

wacky1935

screwball1936

dingbats1937

Asiatic1938

parlatic1941

troppo1941

up the creek1941

screwed-up1943

bonkers1945

psychological1952

out to lunch1955

starkers1956

off (one's) squiff1960

round the twist1960

yampy1963

out of (also off) one's bird1966

out of one's skull1967

whacked out1969

batshit1971

woo-woo1971

nutso1973

out of (one's) gourd1977

wacko1977

off one's meds1986

the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adjective] > utter or absolute

shirea1225

purec1300

properc1380

plainc1395

cleana1400

fine?a1400

entirec1400

veryc1400

starka1425

utterc1430

utterlyc1440

merec1443

absolute1531

outright1532

cleara1535

bloodyc1540

unproachable1544

flat1553

downright1577

sheer1583

right-down?1586

single1590

peremptory1601

perfecta1616

downa1625

implicit1625

every way1628

blank1637

out-and-outa1642

errant1644

inaccessional1651

thorough-paced1651

even down1654

dead1660

double-dyed1667

through stitch1681

through-stitched1682

total1702

thoroughgoing1719

thorough-sped1730

regular1740

plumb1748

hollow1751

unextenuated1765

unmitigated1783

stick, stock, stone dead1796

positive1802

rank1809

heart-whole1823

skire1825

solid1830

fair1835

teetotal1840

bodacious1845

raw1856

literal1857

resounding1873

roaring1884

all out1893

fucking1893

pink1896

twenty-four carat1900

grand slam1915

stone1928

diabolical1933

fricking1937

righteous1940

fecking1952

raving1954

1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. Skire, pure, mere; as, ‘a skire fool’.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

skireadv.

Forms: Also 1500s skyr, 1700s skier, 1800s skyre, scyre.

Etymology: See skire adj.

Scottish.

Sheer; quite; altogether. Also elliptical quite mad.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adverb] > utterly

allOE

outlyOE

thwert-outc1175

skerea1225

thoroughc1225

downrightc1275

purec1300

purelyc1300

faira1325

finelyc1330

quitec1330

quitelyc1330

utterlyc1374

outerlya1382

plainlya1382

straighta1387

allutterly1389

starkc1390

oultrelya1393

plata1393

barec1400

outrightc1400

incomparablyc1422

absolutely?a1425

simpliciter?a1425

staringa1425

quitementa1450

properlyc1450

directly1455

merec1475

incomparable1482

preciselyc1503

clean?1515

cleara1522

plain1535

merely1546

stark1553

perfectly1555

right-down1566

simply1574

flat1577

flatly1577

skire1581

plumb1588

dead?1589

rankly1590

stark1593

sheera1600

start1599

handsmooth1600

peremptory1601

sheerly1601

rank1602

utter1619

point-blank1624

proofa1625

peremptorily1626

downrightly1632

right-down1646

solid1651

clever1664

just1668

hollow1671

entirely1673

blank1677

even down1677

cleverly1696

uncomparatively1702

subtly1733

point1762

cussed1779

regularly1789

unqualifiedly1789

irredeemably1790

positively1800

cussedly1802

heart1812

proper1816

slick1818

blankly1822

bang1828

smack1828

pluperfectly1831

unmitigatedly1832

bodaciously1833

unredeemedly1835

out of sight1839

bodacious1845

regular1846

thoroughly1846

ingrainedly1869

muckinga1880

fucking1893

motherless1898

self1907

stone1928

sideways1956

terminally1974

1581 J. Hamilton Catholik Traictise i. f. 21 Sum in Angus exponing the same ran skyr daft.

1766 A. Nicol Poems Several Subj. 95 Our land is now quite skier naked made.

1822 Howden in D. H. Edwards Mod. Sc. Poets (1881) 2nd Ser. 35 ‘The man's gane skire’, muttered Matt.

1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. at Skeir In Fife..the phrase is, skyre-mad, i.e., quite insane.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

单词	skire
释义	† skireadj. Forms: Middle English skir, Middle English, 1700s–1800s skire; Middle English–1500s, 1800s skyre, Middle English skyr. Etymology: < Old Norse skírr (Norwegian and Middle Swedish skir ) clear, pure, = Old English scír shire adj. In later use only Scots Obsolete. 1. Clear of, free from, something morally bad. ΚΠ c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 12194 All þatt ahhte off eorþliȝ þing. Þatt godess þeowwess haffdenn..i þiss middell ærd Iss all skir fra þe deofell. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 8015 Þatt genge. þatt wass milde. & mec..& off galnesse skir. & fre. 2. a. Of water: Pure, clear. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > water > [adjective] > properties or characteristics of water > pure or clear livingeOE fairOE purec1300 cleara1400 skirea1400 crystalc1425 lucent1820 a1400–50 Alexander 2119 Scamandra þe slire [read skire: Dubl. skyr] flode þe scriptour it callis. c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness l. 1776 Þay..Asscaped ouer þe skyre watteres & scaþed þe walles. b. Of colours, flames, etc.: Clear; bright. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > intensity of light > [adjective] > bright shininga900 lighteOE lightlyOE sheenOE torhtOE shirea1000 steepa1000 shimmeringc1000 brightOE strongOE clear1297 fair?a1300 bright-shininga1387 merrya1393 skirea1400 lucident14.. shimc1400 staringc1400 luculentc1420 splendent1474 illuminousc1485 lucentc1500 bloominga1522 sheer1565 prelucent1568 faculent1575 splendant1578 lucid1591 neat1591 shine1596 translucent1596 well-lighted1606 nitid1615 lucible1623 dilucid1653 translucid1657 hard1660 the world > matter > colour > quality of colour > [adjective] > vivid or bright brightOE skirea1400 livelyc1425 quickc1425 freshlyc1426 flamingc1450 vive1591 florid1642 vivid1665 hot1673 living1699 aurorean1880 vibrant1971 a1400–50 Alexander 467 To skyre skarlet hewe skyftis hire face. c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 12500 [The lightning] skirmyt in the skewes with a skyre low. a1585 Ld. Polwart Flyting with Montgomerie 533 With flying fyreflaughts burning bright and skyre [v.r. schyre]. 3. Conspicuous or notable, esp. in respect of harmful qualities.This sense, which appears only in the Destr. Troy (cf. also ll. 12700 and 13616) is probably due to the requirements of alliteration. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > infamy or notoriety > [adjective] infamousc1380 unfamousc1380 famousa1425 infamed1520 skirec1540 notorious1549 infame1555 stigmatical1591 unsilent1597 exemplifieda1637 flagrant1706 flagitious1741 dreaded1810 c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 8897 In anythyng..Þat hase skapet vs to skathe, ne to skyre harme. c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 13397 Ascatus the skir, þat skathill was in elde. 4. (See quot. 1825 and cf. skire adv.) ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > [adjective] > insanity or madness > affected with woodc725 woodsekc890 giddyc1000 out of (by, from, of) wit or one's witc1000 witlessc1000 brainsickOE amadc1225 lunaticc1290 madc1330 sickc1340 brain-wooda1375 out of one's minda1387 frenetica1398 fonda1400 formada1400 unwisea1400 brainc1400 unwholec1400 alienate?a1425 brainless1434 distract of one's wits1470 madfula1475 furious1475 distract1481 fro oneself1483 beside oneself1490 beside one's patience1490 dementa1500 red-wood?1507 extraught1509 misminded1509 peevish1523 bedlam-ripe1525 straughta1529 fanatic1533 bedlama1535 daft1540 unsounda1547 stark raving (also staring) mad1548 distraughted1572 insane1575 acrazeda1577 past oneself1576 frenzy1577 poll-mad1577 out of one's senses1580 maddeda1586 frenetical1588 distempered1593 distraught1597 crazed1599 diswitted1599 idle-headed1599 lymphatical1603 extract1608 madling1608 distracteda1616 informala1616 far gone1616 crazy1617 March mada1625 non compos mentis1628 brain-crazed1632 demented1632 crack-brained1634 arreptitiousa1641 dementate1640 dementated1650 brain-crackeda1652 insaniated1652 exsensed1654 bedlam-witteda1657 lymphatic1656 mad-like1679 dementative1685 non compos1699 beside one's gravity1716 hyte1720 lymphated1727 out of one's head1733 maddened1735 swivel-eyed1758 wrong1765 brainsickly1770 fatuous1773 derangedc1790 alienated1793 shake-brained1793 crack-headed1796 flighty1802 wowf1802 doitrified1808 phrenesiac1814 bedlamite1815 mad-braineda1822 fey1823 bedlamitish1824 skire1825 beside one's wits1827 as mad as a hatter1829 crazied1842 off one's head1842 bemadded1850 loco1852 off one's nut1858 off his chump1864 unsane1867 meshuga1868 non-sane1868 loony1872 bee-headed1879 off one's onion1881 off one's base1882 (to go) off one's dot1883 locoed1885 screwy1887 off one's rocker1890 balmy or barmy on (or in) the crumpet1891 meshuggener1892 nutty1892 buggy1893 bughouse1894 off one's pannikin1894 ratty1895 off one's trolley1896 batchy1898 twisted1900 batsc1901 batty1903 dippy1903 bugs1904 dingy1904 up the (also a) pole1904 nut1906 nuts1908 nutty as a fruitcake1911 bugged1920 potty1920 cuckoo1923 nutsy1923 puggled1923 blah1924 détraqué1925 doolally1925 off one's rocket1925 puggle1925 mental1927 phooey1927 crackers1928 squirrelly1928 over the edge1929 round the bend1929 lakes1934 ding-a-ling1935 wacky1935 screwball1936 dingbats1937 Asiatic1938 parlatic1941 troppo1941 up the creek1941 screwed-up1943 bonkers1945 psychological1952 out to lunch1955 starkers1956 off (one's) squiff1960 round the twist1960 yampy1963 out of (also off) one's bird1966 out of one's skull1967 whacked out1969 batshit1971 woo-woo1971 nutso1973 out of (one's) gourd1977 wacko1977 off one's meds1986 the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adjective] > utter or absolute shirea1225 purec1300 properc1380 plainc1395 cleana1400 fine?a1400 entirec1400 veryc1400 starka1425 utterc1430 utterlyc1440 merec1443 absolute1531 outright1532 cleara1535 bloodyc1540 unproachable1544 flat1553 downright1577 sheer1583 right-down?1586 single1590 peremptory1601 perfecta1616 downa1625 implicit1625 every way1628 blank1637 out-and-outa1642 errant1644 inaccessional1651 thorough-paced1651 even down1654 dead1660 double-dyed1667 through stitch1681 through-stitched1682 total1702 thoroughgoing1719 thorough-sped1730 regular1740 plumb1748 hollow1751 unextenuated1765 unmitigated1783 stick, stock, stone dead1796 positive1802 rank1809 heart-whole1823 skire1825 solid1830 fair1835 teetotal1840 bodacious1845 raw1856 literal1857 resounding1873 roaring1884 all out1893 fucking1893 pink1896 twenty-four carat1900 grand slam1915 stone1928 diabolical1933 fricking1937 righteous1940 fecking1952 raving1954 1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. Skire, pure, mere; as, ‘a skire fool’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online December 2020). † skirev. Forms: In Middle English skir. Origin: A borrowing from early Scandinavian. Etymon: Norse skíra. Etymology: < Old Norse skíra (Norwegian and Middle Swedish skira ), < skírr adjective: see skire adj. Obsolete. rare. reflexive. To cleanse, clear, or purify (oneself). ΘΚΠ society > morality > virtue > purity > make pure [verb (reflexive)] skirea1300 a1300 Cursor Mundi 28058 Þat þai ripe wele þair aun boke, And skir þam sua wit þair in-sight Þair conscience..clene and bright. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2021). skireadv. Forms: Also 1500s skyr, 1700s skier, 1800s skyre, scyre. Etymology: See skire adj. Scottish. Sheer; quite; altogether. Also elliptical quite mad. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adverb] > utterly allOE allOE outlyOE thwert-outc1175 skerea1225 thoroughc1225 downrightc1275 purec1300 purelyc1300 faira1325 finelyc1330 quitec1330 quitelyc1330 utterlyc1374 outerlya1382 plainlya1382 straighta1387 allutterly1389 starkc1390 oultrelya1393 plata1393 barec1400 outrightc1400 incomparablyc1422 absolutely?a1425 simpliciter?a1425 staringa1425 quitementa1450 properlyc1450 directly1455 merec1475 incomparable1482 preciselyc1503 clean?1515 cleara1522 plain1535 merely1546 stark1553 perfectly1555 right-down1566 simply1574 flat1577 flatly1577 skire1581 plumb1588 dead?1589 rankly1590 stark1593 sheera1600 start1599 handsmooth1600 peremptory1601 sheerly1601 rank1602 utter1619 point-blank1624 proofa1625 peremptorily1626 downrightly1632 right-down1646 solid1651 clever1664 just1668 hollow1671 entirely1673 blank1677 even down1677 cleverly1696 uncomparatively1702 subtly1733 point1762 cussed1779 regularly1789 unqualifiedly1789 irredeemably1790 positively1800 cussedly1802 heart1812 proper1816 slick1818 blankly1822 bang1828 smack1828 pluperfectly1831 unmitigatedly1832 bodaciously1833 unredeemedly1835 out of sight1839 bodacious1845 regular1846 thoroughly1846 ingrainedly1869 muckinga1880 fucking1893 motherless1898 self1907 stone1928 sideways1956 terminally1974 1581 J. Hamilton Catholik Traictise i. f. 21 Sum in Angus exponing the same ran skyr daft. 1766 A. Nicol Poems Several Subj. 95 Our land is now quite skier naked made. 1822 Howden in D. H. Edwards Mod. Sc. Poets (1881) 2nd Ser. 35 ‘The man's gane skire’, muttered Matt. 1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. at Skeir In Fife..the phrase is, skyre-mad, i.e., quite insane. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < adj.c1175v.a1300adv.1581
随便看	give a person the boot or the order of the boot give a person the bothered ear give a person the bum's rush give a person the bumps give a person the business give a person the dingbats give a person the double-cross give a person the doublecross give a person the dunt give a person the elbow give a person the eye give a person the eyeball give a person the fig give a person the finger give a person the foil give a person the foot give a person the fuzzies give a person the gang-by give a person the gangby give a person the gaze give a person the go-around give a person the go-by give a person the goaround give a person the goby give a person the heavy dunt

† skireadj.

† skirev.

skireadv.