单词 | smittle |
释义 | smittlen. English regional (northern). Infection, contagion.In quot. 1844 in to take smittle: to be infected. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > production of disease > [noun] > infection > infectious disease infection?a1425 smit1838 smittle1838 zymotic1842 return case1856 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > production of disease > [noun] > contagion > contagious disease contagion1398 smittle1838 1838 W. Holloway Gen. Dict. Provincialisms 156/2 Smittle, infection. 1844 C. Waterton Ess. Nat. Hist. 2nd Ser. 161 You would have thought that Dame Nature herself had taken smittle, as we say in Yorkshire. 1862 C. C. Robinson Dial. Leeds & Neighbourhood 414 Is ther onny smittle to be flāayed on? 1907 P. H. Ditchfield Parish Clerk xx. 296 ‘He wadn't pit it on,’ said the old clerk Christopher... ‘I reckon he was afeard o' t' smittle.’ This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). smittleadj. Chiefly Scottish, Irish English, and English regional (northern). Of a disease or infestation: infectious; contagious; easily transmitted. Frequently figurative and in figurative contexts.In quot. 1859 of a night: capable of causing ill health. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > production of disease > [adjective] > infectious contagiousc1374 infectivea1398 smitting?c1450 infected1480 infectuous1495 infecting1539 infectious1575 smittle1583 catching1594 contaminous1599 taking1608 communicative1741 malignant1822 contaminative1826 zymotic1842 smittling1845 infectant1855 autoinfective1874 catchy1884 toxo-infectious1907 postinfectious1913 1583 R. Sempill in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. 760 Thair wald this halie bischope byde, Saying, forsuith, it was not smittell. a1626 R. Senhouse Foure Serm. (1627) 132 The infection of Idolatry being so smittle, that..all Asia, and the world worshipping her, Diana had got footing in most Nations. 1693 W. Cockburn tr. W. Harris Exact Enq. Acute Dis. Infants 87 How silly and childish is it for Physitians to call Fevers Malignant, because smittle and contagious. 1720 A. Ramsay Rise & Fall of Stocks in Poems 265 The covetous Infatuation Was smittle out o'er a' the Nation. 1825 D. M. Moir Mansie Wauch in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 458/1 Our trouble seemed a smittal one; the infection spread around. 1859 H. Kingsley Recoll. G. Hamlyn xxxvi Get thy saddles off, lad, and come in; 'tis a smittle night for rheumatics. 1935 W. D. Cocker Further Poems 79 A smittle thing the mawk, Yae flee contaminates a flock. 1955 Irish Times 2 July 8/4 Mightn't there be some smittle disease there? 2004 Belfast News Let. (Nexis) 22 May 36 Thon seekness wus gye smittle an a wheen o' fowk o' the toon tuk bad an dee'd. Derivatives ˈsmittlish adj. (of a disease) infectious; contagious; (of a place) liable to be a source of infection. ΚΠ 1787 F. Grose Provinc. Gloss. Smittleish, infectious. 1845 S. Judd Margaret ii. v. 274 I han't been nigh the smittlish consarn. 1928 A. E. Pease Dict. Dial. N. Riding Yorks. 121/1 A caud i' t'heead's a smittlish thing an all. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). smittlev. Chiefly English regional (north midlands and northern). transitive. To infect; to contaminate. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > production of disease > make diseased [verb (transitive)] > infect infecta1398 touch?c1400 smit1428 file1456 disease1467 fect?1541 tache?1541 tack1601 smittle1625 1625 [implied in: J. Robinson Observ. Divine & Morall lvi. 285 Neyther is there that danger of smitling by other passions, which is by this [sc. anger]. (at smittling n.)]. 1673 J. Ray N. Countrey Words in Coll. Eng. Words 43 Smittle, to infect. 1829 Morning Chron. 27 June The pieces of cake and pie..may be smittled (infected), by having been in the same house with the dead. 1861 M. Eyre Family Hist. III. ii. 35 I am afraid the Rev. Theophilus Bingham has ‘smittled her’ as the Yorkshire folks say. 1886 R. E. G. Cole Gloss. Words S.-W. Lincs. (at cited word) I tell him he's smittled me. 1905 E. W. Prevost Suppl. Gloss. Dial. Cumberland 162/1 Take the rotten apples away, or they'll smittle the rest. 1978 East Anglian Daily Times 11 Dec. 4/7 She is using an expression from Yorkshire when she warns..‘And don't you dare smittle me with your owd germs’. 1996 Trans. Yorks. Dial. Soc. 19 12 He's getting smittled off yond (person). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1838adj.1583v.1625 |
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