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单词 thoughty
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thoughtyadj.

Brit. /ˈθɔːti/, U.S. /ˈθɔdi/, /ˈθɑdi/, Scottish English /ˈθɔtɪ/
Forms: see thought n. and -y suffix1.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: thought n., -y suffix1.
Etymology: < thought n. + -y suffix1. Compare thoughtful adj., thoughted adj.
Now Scottish and U.S. colloquial.
1. Having thoughts of a specified kind. Obsolete. rare.
ΚΠ
a1425 Medulla Gram. (Stonyhurst) f. 10 Biplex, twofold or dowble þouȝti.
2.
a. (a) Pensive, melancholy, anxious. archaic. (b) Given to thought, showing serious thought, thoughtful.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > melancholy > [adjective] > pensive
thoughtfulc1300
pensivea1393
pensya1450
thoughtya1450
pensiful?c1450
pensative1574
melancholy1600
pensived1609
penseroso1813
penserose1831
penseful1865
a1450 (c1412) T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum (Harl. 4866) (1897) l. 80 Who so þat thoghty is, is wo-be-gon.
c1450 tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Lyfe Manhode (Cambr.) (1869) 73 (MED) J was ther of wunderliche abashed and thouhti.
1673 J. Dare Counsellor Manners 35 Thou must not be melancholy, and thoughty in that place, where any one is, as if thou wert snatcht and placed without thy self.
1702 W. Wishart Serm. 33 A minister should be a very thoughty man.
1726 J. Stevens tr. A. de Herrera Tordesillas Gen. Hist. Amer. III. ii. vii. iv. 36 Before Cortes had receiv'd the Letters from Sandoval,..he was very thoughty, believing that Force was too much for a Supply.
1823 M. Corbett & M. Corbett Petticoat Tales II. 110 (Jam.) Fanny is two years younger than I am, and not so thoughty, as Philip says.
1876 D. Gilmour Paisley Weavers 140 Nae thochty man cud pit up wi' sic neglegence.
1903 G. Keats (title) The Roman road; the balance; the thoughty ones.
1947 Amer. Speech 22 157 On the Lum and Abner show, November 19, 1946, one of the characters said, ‘She's a thoughty woman..the thoughtiest woman in town.’
1998 R. W. Balch in W. W. Zellner & M. Petrowsky Sects, Cults, & Spiritual Communities iv. 88 Outspoken members were considered too ‘thoughty’ and their ideas were dismissed as worldly ‘conceptions’.
2007 Publishers Weekly (Nexis) 23 Apr. 19 I wanted to write exactly the kind of relentless, thoughty global thriller that I would love to read myself.
b. Heedful, attentive, intent. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > attention > [adjective]
carefulc1050
soignous1340
mindfula1382
tentivec1386
presentc1395
attendant1432
tendable?c1450
advicefulc1454
thoughtyc1480
neara1500
respective1525
heedful1548
heedy1548
prick-eared?1550
attendable1552
attentive1577
tentible1603
observative1609
unpreoccupied1643
advertent1646
presential1652
inspectivea1684
tent1789
attentful-
the world > action or operation > manner of action > care, carefulness, or attention > [adjective]
busyOE
carefula1000
orne?c1225
intentivec1290
soignous1340
curiousc1386
diligentc1400
well-advisedc1405
thoughtfulc1450
thoughtyc1480
keepful1489
tentfula1525
respective1525
solicit?1526
heedful1548
heedy1548
tentyc1555
chare1564
respectful1585
tentible1603
solicitous1610
observant1627
care-taking1825
leery1911
c1480 (a1400) St. Machor 706 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 21 Besy..til infourme ȝu in cheryte, & in sawle hele thochty to be.
a1500 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun Oryg. Cron. Scotl. (Nero) vi. 1608 As he past apon aday In til huntynge..On his gamyn al thouchty.
1532 (c1385) Usk's Test. Loue in Wks. G. Chaucer ii. f. cccxliiii Euer is their contemplacion in ful of thoughty studye to plesaunce.
c. Considerate, thoughtful of others.
ΚΠ
1664 J. Carstaires Let. in W. Ferrie Notices of Life J. Carstaires (1843) 106 Your freind..is more thoughtie about you than himselfe.
1953 J. H. Giles Kentuckians xxii. 261 ‘Thought we'd come down and see could we help out.’ ‘Well, that's right thoughty of you.’
1994 R. Hendrickson Happy Trails 232 That was mighty thoughty of you.

Derivatives

ˈthoughtiness n. (a) melancholy, pensiveness (archaic); (b) thoughtfulness, thinking.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > melancholy > [noun] > pensiveness
pensiveheadc1425
pensivenessc1425
pensienessc1450
pensifulnessc1450
thoughtfulness1594
melancholy?1614
thoughtinessa1658
pensive1664
a1658 J. Durham Pract. Expos. X. Commandements (1675) x. 459 That thoughtiness and anxious carefulness which often is in bargains making,..is we conceive especially pointed at here, there is a sutable carefulness, which..is consistent with lawful diligence.
a1709 J. Nimmo Narr. (1889) 4 My father..was resolved to use authoretie qch was not pleasing to me, & increassed my thoghtines.
1983 W. L. Lorimer & R. L. C. Lorimer New Test. in Scots 12 Whilk o ye can eik hauf an ell til his heicht bi thochtiness?
2002 X. J. Kennedy in A. Finch & K. Varnes Exalt. of Forms iii. 208 There's always the danger that a poem will turn into a clogged mishmash of excessive thoughtiness.
2008 J. Bryan Looking Inward v. 196 Hoccleve initially presents his solitary thoughtiness, his poisonous flirtations with despair, not as the cause of his social alienation, but as the result.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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