英语词汇“kempy”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

kempy

释义

▪ I. ˈkempy, n. Sc. and north. dial.
[f. kemp n.¹]
A kemp or champion; one given to fighting; a rough or uncouth fellow.
1525in Pitcairn Crim. Trials I. 126* John Steill, alias Kempy Steill, convicted.1801Macneill Poet. Wks. (1856) 172 I've heard some hair-brained kempy Growl when your chappin bottle's empty.1822Scott Pirate xxviii, When kempies were wont, long since, to seek the habitations of the galdragons and spae-women.1874Waugh Chimn. Corner (1879) 158 (E.D.D.) ‘Never..quiet but when he're feightin'.’ ‘Ay, he're a regilar kempie’.
▪ II. kempy, a.|ˈkɛmpɪ|
[f. kemp n.² + -y¹.]
Of wool: Abounding in kemps or coarse hairs.
1805J. Luccock Nat. Wool 242 Its wool was kempy, rough and thin.1849Rowlandson in Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. Eng. X. ii. 427 The great quantity of kempy locks which compose the fleece of this breed.1868Daily News 8 Dec., Like a black-faced sheep, but rather kempy in the wool.

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