| 单词 | to get one's fairing |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto get one's fairing b. Scottish and Irish English (northern). That which is deserved; a due reward or recompense, whether good or evil. Chiefly in to get one's fairing, to give (a person) his or her fairing. Cf. desert n.1 3. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > morality > dueness or propriety > [verb (intransitive)] > deserve well or ill > get one's deserts to sow the wind and reap the whirlwindc1384 to drink to one's oysters1470 to serve (a person) right1587 to get the wissel of one's groat1721 to get one's fairing1787 to get one's bitters1812 to get one's faring1846 come1896 society > morality > dueness or propriety > [verb (transitive)] > deserve (well or ill) > give one his deserts to serve (a person) right1587 to give (a person) his or her fairing1818 1787 R. Burns Death & Dr. Hornbook xxx, in Poems (new ed.) 64 Niest time we meet, I'll wad a groat, He's got his fairin! 1818 W. Scott Old Mortality viii, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. IV. 161 Mackay will pit him down..he'll gi'e him his fairing. 1823 J. G. Lockhart Reginald Dalton I. ii. iv. 262 ‘Ane o' them got his fairin.’ 1830 J. Banim Denounced I. xii. 106 Punish him, Maud! pay him! give him his fairing! 1926 ‘H. MacDiarmid’ Penny Wheep 21 Blaefaced afore the throne o' God He'll get his fairin' yet. 1999 J. Robertson Day O Judgement 19 Nae hotchin an nae yabberin nou, That aw mey lairn, baith wee an great, The fairins that tae each is due. < as lemmas |
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