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单词 blout
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bloutn.

Brit. /blaʊt/, U.S. /blaʊt/, Scottish English /blʌʊt/
Etymology: Apparently onomatopoeic: compare blow, blast, blash, etc.
Scottish.
1. The sudden breaking of a storm; a sudden downpour of rain, hail, etc., accompanied by wind.
ΚΠ
1794 Har'st Rig lxxxii. 27 For 'tis a blout will soon be laid, And we may hap us in our plaid, Till it blaws o'er.
1804 W. Tarras Poems 63 (Jam.) Vernal win's, wi' bitter blout, Out owre our chimlas blaw.
2. Cf. gout n.1 5 (of blood).
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1827 J. Wilson Noctes Ambrosianae xxxii, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Apr. 481 Wringin' her hauns, as if washin' them in the cleansin' dews frae the blouts o' blood.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

bloutadj.

Forms: Also blowt.
Etymology: Compare Dutch bloot naked, bare, Old Norse blaut-r soft, wet. The Old Norse accounts best for the form, but the Dutch agrees in sense.
Scottish. Obsolete.
Naked, bare, desolate.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > place > absence > fact of being unoccupied > [adjective] > deserted
manlessOE
willc1330
void1338
desolatec1374
destitute1382
blouta1522
destituted1550
unmanned1609
lifeless1615
deserted1629
vaked1638
vacant1791
a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1960) xiii. vi. 227 Planys..blowt of bestis and of treys bair.
a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1960) xi. xvii. 8 The banneris left all blowt and desolait.
1553 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Eneados vii. Prol. 65 Woddis forestis, with naket bowis blout Stude stripit of thare wede, in euery hout.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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