单词 | switzer |
释义 | Switzern. archaic. 1. = Swiss n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > the Swiss > [noun] > native or inhabitant of Switzerland Swiss1515 Swisser1530 Swissener1542 Switzer1577 Muff1585 Helvetian1593 cantonera1670 1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. I. ii. viii. sig. N/1 Wee Switzers saye: Vrteilen oder erteilen oder richten. 1597 J. Skene De Verborum Significatione at Menetum I haue seene the like in the Cuntrie of Helvetia..amangst the Zuitzers. 1624 J. Smith Gen. Hist. Virginia iii. xi. 88 One William Volday, a Zwitzar by birth. 1664 S. Butler Hudibras: Second Pt. ii. iii. 212 A Monster with huge Whiskers, More formidable then a Switzers. a1754 H. Fielding Jrnl. Voy. Lisbon (1755) 194 The honesty and freedom of the Switzer. 1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake vi. 246 The mountain-loving Switzer. 1883 American 7 186 Born, reared and educated a Switzer. 2. plural = Swiss guard n. at Swiss n. and adj. Compounds: rarely singular. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warriors collectively > lifeguard or bodyguard > [noun] > specific praetorya1387 pretoira1393 Switzer1591 Scots Guard1602 palatines1623 Swiss guardc1660 yeomanry1673 immortal1803 household brigade1814 Varangian Guard1831 1591 W. Garrard & R. Hitchcock Arte of Warre 348 But against the Switzers and Launce Knights, the Launce auaileth litle. a1616 W. Shakespeare Hamlet (1623) iv. v. 95 King. Where are my Switzers [1604 Swissers]? Let them guard the doore. 1638 R. Baker tr. J. L. G. de Balzac New Epist. II. 81 He will never suffer..that a Swytzer shall keepe them out from entring his base Court. 1714 J. Macky Journey through Eng. I. ii. 18 A Guard-Hall, where the Switzers, or the Yeomen of the Guards, as they are called here [i.e. at Windsor Castle], do Duty. 1892 T. R. Lounsbury Stud. Chaucer III. vii. 193 That literary proletariat of the last century whose members..threatened at one time to develop into an organized band of scribbling Switzers. 3. attributive or adj.= Swiss adj. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > the Swiss > [adjective] Swiss1530 Switzer1598 Helvetic1708 1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres v. 172 A seruant..(who spake the Switzer tong perfectly well). 1818 W. Scott Battle of Sempach vii The Switzer priest has ta'en the field. 1829 W. Scott Anne of Geierstein I. ix. 267 Now thou hast seen us more closely, what thinkest thou of the Switzer youth? Derivatives ˈSwitzeress n. a female Switzer, a Swiss woman or girl.(The allusion in quot. 1719 is doubtful.) ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > the Swiss > [noun] > native or inhabitant of Switzerland > woman Switzeress1719 Swissess1793 1719 Free-thinker No. 132. 2 It was impossible he should ever love such a Switzeress as the Queen. 1895 Punch 28 Sept. 147/3 Simple Switzeresses outside toybooths..all in national costume. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1577 |
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