单词 | camshoch |
释义 | camshochadj. Scottish. 1. Crooked, distorted, awry; deformed. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > misshapenness > [adjective] > crooked wough862 crumba1100 wrongc1175 crooked?c1225 crochedc1300 forcrookedc1305 miscrookeda1398 crumpleda1400 kirkeda1425 camshoch1513 crooken1589 awry1728 thraward1814 ajee1816 ahoo1828 crinkly-crankly1850 unstraight1860 cockeye1891 cockeyed1899 crookedy1907 1513 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid vii. Prol. 107 Laithlie of forme, wyth crukit camschow beik. a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1957) iii. x. 43 Tha elrych bredyr..with mony camscho beik And hedis semand to the hevyn areik. a1600 A. Montgomerie Flyting with Polwart 295 That cruiked, camschoche croyll, vncristned, they curse. 1730 A. Ramsay Twa Cats & Cheese 13 A monkey with a campsho face. 1807–10 R. Tannahill Poems (1846) 21 Auld, swirlon, slaethorn, camsheugh, crooked Wight. 2. figurative. Perverse (in disposition or fortune). ΚΠ 1606 W. Birnie Blame of Kirk-buriall xix. sig. F2v The camshoch commons now at last coms in a rere warde to debate the cause. 1787 W. Taylor Scots Poems 179 Bot camshach wife or girnin gett. 1788 J. Skinner Christmass Bawing in Caledonian Mag. Sept. 502 Pate had caught a camshuch cair, At this unsonsy wark. 1790 A. Wilson Poems 206 The queer carles sae camsheugh spake. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1513 |
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