单词 | tinkler fellow |
释义 | > as lemmastinkler fellow As a modifier, esp. with the senses ‘that is a tinkler’, as in tinkler fellow, tinkler-gypsy, tinkler laddie, etc.; ‘of, belonging to, or characteristic of a tinkler’, as in tinkler tongue, etc. ΚΠ 1618 Edinb. Test. L. f. 62v in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Tynklar Fyve hankis tinkler wyre at xxvj s. viij d. the hank. a1689 W. Cleland Coll. Poems (1697) 21 Tho Silver Plate, Sharps Guard did plunder, With Horse and Cloaths, I think no wonder, For a pack of Tinkler Fellows, Will steal tho they should get the Gallows. 1786 R. Burns Twa Dogs iii, in Poems 10 Ev'n wi' a Tinkler-gipsey's messan. 1822 J. Galt Sir Andrew Wylie I. ii.16 Nae wonder ye ne'er got a man, ye cankery runt, wi' your red neb and your tinkler tongue. 1927 J. Buchan Witch Wood ix. 157 And the same bluid's in Katrine, wha suld hae been a laddie, and a tinkler laddie, for it's no her that will mind her seam or watch the pot when the sun's shinin'. 1932 W. D. Cocker Poems 57 O queer stravaigin' tinkler men, Ye ken the things we dinna ken;..Hoo to lie lown oot-bye at nicht. 1995 N. Philip Penguin Bk. Sc. Folk Tales p. xxi Recently our appreciation of Lowland storytelling has been transformed..by the revelation of a vigorous living narrative tradition among Scottish travellers, or ‘tinkler-gypsies’. < as lemmas |
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