“lowrie”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

lowrie

释义

▪ I. lowrie Sc.|ˈlaʊrɪ|
Also 6 lawrie, loury, 6–8 lowry.
[Short for laurence¹.]
1. The fox; used as a quasi-proper name.
1500–20Dunbar Poems xxxii. 16 The tod..wes ane lusty reid haird lowry.1728Ramsay Fox & Rat 27 The Monarch pleas'd with Lowry, wha durst gloom?1835Laird of Logan (1841) 163 A' my customers hae been worrying at me like as many jowlers in the neck o' poor tod lowrie.1885‘S. Mucklebackit’ Rhymes 91 As sheep when lowrie tod they see, Man, wife, and wean, in panic flee!
2. A crafty person; a ‘fox’; a hypocrite.
1567Gude & Godlie Ball. (S.T.S.) 209 Had not that blissit bairne bene borne,..Lowreis, zour lyues had been forlorne.1571Satir. Poems Reform. xxix. 21 Ȝitt I beleieff ols mony myndis thochte, ha, loury, ha, ha!1583Leg. Bp. St. Androis 55 Men heiring tell how Lowrie landit, The congregatione him commandit To serve a kirk and keip a cure.
▪ II. lowrie
var. laury Obs.; Australian var. lory.

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