单词 | tauted |
释义 | tautedadj. Scottish and Irish English (northern). Of hair, the coat of an animal, etc.: tangled, matted; long and unkempt. Of a person or animal: having tangled, unkempt hair; shaggy. Cf. earlier tatted adj.1, slightly later tauty adj. Sc. National Dict. (at Taut v.) records this word as still in use in the Northern Isles, Caithness, Angus, and west central Scotland in 1972. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > hair > types of hair > [adjective] > tangled tattered1340 unkempt?a1439 dishevelc1450 tatty1513 tautyc1560 feltered1567 dishevelled1582 elf-locked1647 tatted1716 tauted1786 matty-haired1824 tangle-haired1861 draggle-haired1865 tangle-headed1884 waulked1894 natty1974 the world > life > the body > hair > types of hair > [adjective] > tangled > having felteredc1450 tauted1786 1786 R. Burns Poems 67 She was nae get o' moorlan tips, Wi' tauted ket, an' hairy hips. 1786 R. Burns Twa Dogs iii, in Poems 10 Nae tawted tyke, tho' e'er sae duddie. 1829 C. Oliphant in R. Chambers Sc. Songs I. 107 Ye're sun-burnt and tatter'd, John Tod, John Tod, Ye're tautit and batter'd, John Tod. 1843 J. Crawford in Whistle-Binkie 5th Ser. 104 While frae the bairnie's tautit hair The frozen crystals hung. 1893 R. L. Stevenson Catriona xx. 234 God's truth, it's the tautit laddie! 1917 J. Buchan Poems 51 Back twenty year. A tautit wean, I heard my granny's voice complain. 1959 A. L. Taylor in Burns Chron. 3rd Ser. 8 63 A creeshie bunnet on its heid, A tautit coat heng on its bodie. 1996 C. I. Macafee Conc. Ulster Dict. 349/2 Tauted, tawted, tangled, matted. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1786 |
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