| 单词 |
pirny |
| 释义 |
▪ I. pirnie, pirny, a. and n.1 Sc.|ˈpɜːnɪ|
[app. related to prec. vb. and to pirn n.2 sense 4.]
A. adj. Of cloth: Striped with different colours.
[1511Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. IV. 253 The Kingis goune of pyrne satyne of gold lynit with Romany buge.] 1697Cleland Poems 12 With Brogues, and Trues, and pirnie Plaides, With good blew Bonnets on their Heads. 1721Ramsay Elegy on Patie Birnie, The famous fiddler of Kinghorn..Tho' baith his weeds and mirth were pirny. [Note. When a piece of stuff is wrought unequally, part coarse, and part fine, of yarn of different colours, we call it pirny, from the pirn.] 1865Janet Hamilton Poems 192 Crossing his ‘pirnie’ plaid over his shoulders and chest.
B. n. A conical woollen nightcap, usually striped with different colours.
‘Generally applied to those manufactured at Kilmarnock’ (Jamieson).
1824Mactaggart Gallovid. Encycl. s.v., A monkey..leaped on to his shoulder, and plucked off his pirnie. 1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, Pirnie, a woollen nightcap made in Kilmarnock, of different colours or stripes. 1895Crockett Bog-Myrtle & Peat 206 Tibbie was knitting at a reid pirnie for her father.
▪ II. pirnie, pirny, n.2 Sc.|ˈpɜːnɪ|
Diminutive of pirn n.2
1776C. Keith Farmer's Ha' 5 The auld gudewife the pirney reels Wi' tenty hand. 1879J. White Jottings 192 (E.D.D.) Doon to the Leap I'll aften rin, Richt glad to hear my pirnie spin. |
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