cairdn.

Brit.

/kɛːd/, U.S.

/kɛ(ə)rd/, Scottish English

/kerd/

Forms: Also 1700s kaird.

Etymology: Lowland Scots < Gaelic ceard ‘artificer in metal, tinker, blackguard’ = Irish ceard (masculine) artist, artificer, metal-worker, tinker < Old Irish cerd (cert) smith, artificer, artist, composer, poet. The same word as Irish ceard (feminine) art, trade, business, function < Old Irish cerd art, craft, handicraft, Manx keird craft, trade, Welsh cerdd art, craft, now especially musical art, minstrelsy. (The Scots thus shows a degraded use of an important Celtic word; cognate with Latin cerdo handicraftsman, cobbler; also Greek κέρδεα ‘cunning arts’, κερδώ wily one, cunning fox.

Scottish.

A travelling tinker; a gipsy, tramp, vagrant.

ΚΠ

c1650 J. Spalding Memorialls Trubles Scotl. & Eng. (1850) I. 309 Forbes..nik named Kard, becaus when he wes ane boy he servit ane Kaird.

1786 R. Burns Poems 76 Yill an' whisky gie to Cairds.

1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian xii, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. IV. 248 This fellow had been originally a tinkler or caird, many of whom stroll about these districts.

Derivatives

ˈcairdman n.

ΚΠ

?a1800 Knight & Shepherds Daughter ix, in F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads (1886) II. iv. 474/2 A cairdman's daughter Should never be a true-love o mine.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	caird
释义	cairdn. Brit. /kɛːd/, U.S. /kɛ(ə)rd/, Scottish English /kerd/ Forms: Also 1700s kaird. Etymology: Lowland Scots < Gaelic ceard ‘artificer in metal, tinker, blackguard’ = Irish ceard (masculine) artist, artificer, metal-worker, tinker < Old Irish cerd (cert) smith, artificer, artist, composer, poet. The same word as Irish ceard (feminine) art, trade, business, function < Old Irish cerd art, craft, handicraft, Manx keird craft, trade, Welsh cerdd art, craft, now especially musical art, minstrelsy. (The Scots thus shows a degraded use of an important Celtic word; cognate with Latin cerdo handicraftsman, cobbler; also Greek κέρδεα ‘cunning arts’, κερδώ wily one, cunning fox. Scottish. A travelling tinker; a gipsy, tramp, vagrant. ΚΠ c1650 J. Spalding Memorialls Trubles Scotl. & Eng. (1850) I. 309 Forbes..nik named Kard, becaus when he wes ane boy he servit ane Kaird. 1786 R. Burns Poems 76 Yill an' whisky gie to Cairds. 1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian xii, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. IV. 248 This fellow had been originally a tinkler or caird, many of whom stroll about these districts. Derivatives ˈcairdman n. ΚΠ ?a1800 Knight & Shepherds Daughter ix, in F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads (1886) II. iv. 474/2 A cairdman's daughter Should never be a true-love o mine. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.c1650
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