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单词 tirrivee
释义

tirriveetirrivien.

Forms: Also tiri-, tiry-, tirry-, tirrie-, tery-, turry-, tira-, tirravee, tirravie.
Etymology: Origin obscure: some suggest a corruption of tailyevey v.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: tirriˈvee.
Scottish.
A fit or display of ill temper or passion; an unchecked outburst.
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1813 J. Hogg Queen's Wake Notes 360 He suspected his spouse had taken some of her tirravies.
1814 W. Scott Waverley III. xxi. 330 A very weel-meaning good-natured man..when he was na in ane o' his tirrivies . View more context for this quotation
1898 N. Munro in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Feb. 184/2 I'm willing to make some allowance for a lover's tirravee.
1910 W. Findlay in J. MacIntosh Poets of Ayrshire 273 When a party ends up in a wild tirivee.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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