| 单词 |
scroyle |
| 释义 |
† scroyle Obs.|skrɔɪl| Also 7 scroile. [Of obscure origin. The conjecture that it is a. OF. escroele, scrofulous sore, is not quite satisfactory as to form, and the assumed development of sense, though plausible, has no evidence.] A scoundrel, wretch.
1595Shakes. John ii. i. 373 By heauen! these scroyles of Angiers flout you, kings. 1601B. Jonson Poetaster iv. iii. 35, I cry mercy (my good scroile) was't thou? [Cf. ante 20 By thy leaue, my neat scoundrell.] 1622J. Taylor (Water-P.) Water-cormorant E 3, Then vpon Sabbath dayes the scroyle beginnes With most vnhallowed hands, to weed vp sinnes. 1794I. Williams Crying Epist. 20 P—t was presuming when a young beginner: S—d—y's a Scroyle—A—d—n's a luckless winner! 1821Scott Kenilw. xix, ‘Hang him, foul scroyle, let him pass,’ said the mercer. |
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