单词 | tidling |
释义 | tidlingn. Obsolete exc. dialect. A pampered or spoilt child; a darling, pet; a young, delicate, or puny child or animal, needing special care; a weakling, ‘dilling’. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > loved one > [noun] > state or condition of being a favourite > favourite or pet darlingc888 favoura1387 dandilly?a1513 tidling1520 marmoset1523 white son1539 minion1566 favourite1582 white boyc1600 feddle1611 dautie1676 inclination1691 mother's pet1819 fair-haired boy1822 pet1825 white-haired boy1829 petsywetsy1847 blue-eyed boy1919 fave1938 1520 R. Whittington Uulgaria (new ed.) f. 37v These cokeneis & tidelynges wantonly brought vp. a1553 Nice Wanton in W. C. Hazlitt Dodsley's Sel. Coll. Old Eng. Plays (1874) II. 164 She for their sake, Being her tender tidlings, will me beat. [Cf. 173 [referring to the same persons] My parents did tiddle me: they were to blame; 174 Yet were we tiddled, and you beaten now and then.] c1580 tr. Bugbears iii. i, in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1897) 99 The gray beard daunceth, and fareth as he weare dame venus tideling. 1657 J. Trapp Comm. Psalms iii. Introd. Absalom his Son, his Darling, his Tidling, his one Eye. 1905 Eng. Dial. Dict. VI. 137/2 Tiddling, (a) a young animal, esp. a lamb, brought up by hand; a delicate child needing care; (b) the smallest pig in a litter. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1520 |
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