sorra

'Sorra a friend I have - sorra a friend, Masther Richard; and I did not spake to the priest this year or more, and I darn't go near him,' said the poor Palmerstown lass that was once so merry.

1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:

Sorra a bite she ates but she drinks the mixture with it.
她一口也沒有吃，但她把混合物和它一起喝了。

1879, Chambers's Journal (volume 56, issue 2, page 589)


fret

來自中古英語 freten (“捆”)，來自古法語 freter，來自frete (“金屬包頭”)（現代法語 frette）。用來表示音樂意思的源頭未知；可能來自 frete 或來自 fret（摩擦）。


chile

源自西班牙語 chile。


of

來自中古英語 of，來自古英語 of (“從、自”)，af的非重音形式，æf (“從、離、離開”)，來自原始日耳曼語 *ab (“離開；遠離”)。off的同源對似詞，為古英語單詞的重音派生詞。參見off。

(屬於)： 對於人，一般會直接用所有格形式。

(組成，製成)： of 可以直接與動詞或形容詞短語連用。

現代英語逐漸少用 of 修飾名詞，轉用名詞 + 名詞的結構。對比 part of speech (“詞類”)（16世紀） vs. word class (“詞類”)（20世紀），Federal Bureau of Investigation（“聯邦調查局”，1908年） vs. Central Intelligence Agency（“中央情報局”，1947年），affairs of the world（18世紀） vs. world affairs（“國際事務”，20世紀）。

of 連接名詞和被某些副詞修飾的定語形容詞時，可以被省略。這個用法中可用的副詞包括too、so、how、as、more、less、this、that。

表達距離或移動。 從（遠處、方向），等同於“off”。（自西元9世紀）

Against headache, vertigo, vapours which ascend forth of the stomach to molest the head, read Hercules de Saxonia and others.

1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd版, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
, II.5.3.ii:

表達時間點。
表示時間的長度。 （自13世紀）

I've not tekken her out of a goodly long while.


loot

一種杓子，主要用於移走製鹽鍋中浮在鹽水表面的雜質。


bating

more bating (comparative)
most bating (superlative)


volk

Edg. Good gentleman, go your gait, and let poor volk pass.

1608，威廉·莎士比亞 《李爾王》

No doubt a mampus of volk of our own rank will be down here in their carriages as soon as 'tis known.

1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles:


unca

That's from the poem of the legend of Kubla Kahn's palace in the lost valley of Xanadu! Alph was the river in the legend! Unca Scrooge, this is the road to Xanadu!

1991, Don Rosa, “Return to Xanadu”, 出自 Uncle Scrooge, 卷s 261-262，頁號 5:


rin

繼承自中古英語 rinnen，來自古英語 rinnan (“跑”)，來自原始日耳曼語 *rinnaną (“跑”)。run參見更多資訊。

"Besides," he continued, "I'm no sure that I'm right in rinning—rinning! I'm no rinning , I'm ganging; weel then I'm no sure that I'm right doing a witch's errand, whether rinning or ganging, sae I'se stand still and consider it.[…]."

1836, Allan Cunningham, Lord Roldan, 卷 1, John Macrone，頁號 314:

O! gin I were where Gadie^([the name of a rivulet]) rins,

a. 1846, John Imlah, “Where Gadie rins”, 出自 James Grant Wilson 編, The Poets and Poetry of Scotland, Volume II, Harper & Brothers, 出版於 1876，頁號 211:

I had a servant who had lived all his life-time within four miles of Plymouth, who told me of a circumstance which occurred to his mother, thus:— "Mawther ben out gatherin' nits, and when she kimbed hum she went to shet the shetters , and then she seed a man rin out of the dewr weth three spewns weth un, what he had stould, and away he rinned, and my mawther rinned arter un. 'Twas as fine a mewnlight night as cud be seed tew (too); an she cud see un stright on afore her; and hallowed tew she ded as lang as ever her wind beered up, and rinned and rinned; at laest she rinned un out of sight, and never goat the spewns she dedn't"

1879, I. T. Tregellas [John Tabois Tregellas], Peeps Into the Haunts and Homes of the Rural Population of Cornwall, Netherton & Worth (Truro), Houlston & Sons (London), page 3,


pisser

令人感到印象深刻的人或事


lire

源自中古英語 lire、lyre，源自古英語 līra (“肌肉，腓”)，源自原始日耳曼語 *ligwizô、*lihwizô (“大腿”)，源自原始印歐語 *lekʷs-、*lewks- (“腹股溝”)。與荷蘭語 lies (“腹股溝”)、瑞典語 lår (“大腿”)同源。


lire

源自中古英語 lire、lyre，源自古諾爾斯語 hlýr 複 (“臉頰”)。對比中古英語 lere，源自古英語 hlēor (“臉頰，面色”)。參見leer。


lire

源自古諾爾斯語 líri。與挪威語 lira同源。


sare

sarer (comparative)
sarest (superlative)


afeared

源自中古英語 aferd。

I ain't afeared of anything on this side o' the grave; but I thought that maybe it was him that died o' the typhoid inspecting the drains what killed him.

1886, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, "A Study in Scarlet"


sliver

源自中古英語 slivere, sliver，源自中古英語 sliven (“切，使裂開”)，源自古英語 slīfan（參見tōslīfan (“使裂開，使分開”)）。

切下的長薄片或尖碎片。 尤指扎進皮膚的碎片。

A sliver of bone has punctured a lung, and a small surgical operation was needed to remove it (would he like to keep the bone as a memento?--it is in a phial by his bedside).

2013, J. M. Coetzee, The Childhood of Jesus. Melbourne, Australia: The Text Publishing Company. chapter 27. p. 270.


vell

對比拉丁語 vellus (“帶羊毛的羊皮；獸皮”)、英語fell (“獸皮”)。

用鹽醃製過的牛犢胃，用於製作乳酪


speshul

special的視覺方言拼法。

more speshul (comparative)
most speshul (superlative)

My brother works on the Telegraph; he's a compositor and he'd give me the first pull of any speshul stuff and I could bring it to you.

1991, Frank Harris, John F Gallagher, My Life and Loves

Theyve put me on the speshul detail. The speshul detail, Mable, is a bunch of fellos what knows more than any one else in the camp.

2005, Lieutenant Edward Streeter, That's Me All Over Mable


thrashel

連枷；由一根木桿和一根短而重的棍子組成的工具

(我們能否查找並添加Halliwell引用過本詞的語句？)


meader

繼承自中古英語 *medere，繼承自古英語 mǣþere (“割草機”)，等價於math + -er。


argh

來自中古英語 argh，古英語 earg (“弱小的，膽小的”)，原始西日耳曼語 *arg，原始日耳曼語 *argaz。低地蘇格蘭語 ergh, argh, arch, erf (“膽小的，不情願的”)的同源詞，eerie的同源對似詞。

more argh (comparative)
most argh (superlative)


yeat

gate的另一種拼寫法，目前僅用於部分地名。


trucker

源自中古英語 *trukere (“騙子”)，源自中古英語 trukien (“失敗，使失望”)，等同於truck (“失敗”) + -er。對比trooker。


trucker

more trucker (comparative)
most trucker (superlative)


noit

note (“職責；工作”)的另一種寫法


yack

If 't ash tree buds before 't yack, […]

Awd stiff yack nut eeasy bended, […]

1878, John Castillo, Poems in the North Yorkshire Dialect, section 25:


smolt

繼承自中古英語 smolt、smylt，繼承自古英語 smolt、smeolt (“温和的、平和的、宁静的、静止的、温柔的、清晰的、明亮的”)，繼承自原始日耳曼語 *smultaz、*smeltaz (“安静的、温柔的”)，源自原始印歐語 *(s)meld- (“击打、研磨、压碎、削弱”)。同源詞包括低地蘇格蘭語 smolt (“平静的”)、古撒克遜語 smultro (“安静的”)、中古荷蘭語 smolt、smout (“弱的、温柔的、安静的”)、中古高地德語 smolz (“亲爱的、可爱的、美丽的、有光泽的”)。

more smolt (comparative)
most smolt (superlative)


prin

preen的另一種拼寫法


prin

preen的另一種拼寫法


aver

繼承自中古英語 aver、avere (“役马；泛指任何驮畜；所有物、财物、财产、财富；富有；所有权、占有权”) [以及其他形式]：
* 源自古法語 aver、aveir、avoir (“财产，财物；（统称）驮兽；家畜；牛”)（現代法語 avoir (“资产，财产”)），源自 aveir、avoir (“有”)，源自拉丁語 habēre，habeō (“拥有，持有，佔有”) 的現在主動不定式，源自原始印歐語 *gʰeh₁bʰ-, *ǵʰeh₁bʰ- (“抓，拿”)；或
* 繼承自古英語 eafor (“驮马；佃户运输货物的义务”)，進一步的詞源未知。

馱畜；主要指役馬，但也可指公牛或其他動物


sitten

源自中古英語 siten、seten，源自古英語 seten、ġeseten, sittan (“坐”) 的過去分詞。等價於 sit + -en (過去分詞)。同源詞包括荷蘭語 gezeten、德語 gesessen。

more sitten (comparative)
most sitten (superlative)

The tailȝeour was no thing weill sittin, He left the sadill.

He micht counter Will on horss, For Sym wes bettir sittin Nor Will.