| 单词 | sir roger |
| 释义 | > as lemmasSir Roger 5. English regional (East Anglian). Also Sir Roger. A sudden small, localized whirlwind. Cf. Roger's Blast n., rodges-blast n. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > [noun] > blast or gust of ghosteOE blasta1000 blas?c1225 ragec1405 blorec1440 flaw1513 thud1513 flaga1522 fuddera1522 flake1555 flan1572 whid?1590 flirta1592 gust1594 berry1598 wind-catch1610 snuff1613 stress1625 flash1653 blow1655 fresh1662 scud1694 flurry1698 gush1704 flam1711 waff1727 flawer1737 Roger's Blasta1825 flaff1827 slat1840 scart1861 rodges-blast1879 huffle1889 slap1890 slammer1891 Sir Roger1893 1893 in H. T. Cozens-Hardy Broad Norfolk (Eastern Daily Press) 12 Whenever I have heard the Broadland sirocco spoken of it has always been as ‘Sir Rodger’. 1895 A. Patterson Man & Nature on Broads 67 A sudden squall, a regular ‘Roger’,..strikes us; and heavy rain drops down from an overcast sky. 1899 East Anglian 3rd Ser. 8 127 ‘Roger's Blast.’.. At and around Hadleigh, Suff., it is called ‘a Roger’. 1901 E. R. Suffling Innocents on Broads xii. 327 As the first flakes fell silently around, a sudden squall like a ‘Rodger’ (whirlwind) caught the yacht. 1934 A. Ransome Coot Club xxiii. 279 They heard again that wild, hissing, whistling noise over the marshes. ‘A Roger coming’, said Port. 1984 Daily Tel. 22 Oct. 14 As a boy I heard an old farm labourer say: ‘This ow' roger, that come along an' took my ow' jacket two fields away’. Last year a roger hoisted burning straw to the top of a telegraph pole and set it alight. < as lemmas |
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