| 单词 | tosy |
| 释义 | tosy, tosie, a. Sc.|ˈtozɪ| Also tozie, -y. [Origin uncertain: it can hardly be the same as tozy a.] 1. Warm; comforting or comfortable, snug, cosy. Sometimes app. = ‘fresh, refreshing’.
1720Ramsay Patie & Rodger i. i, How tosie is't tae snuff the cauller air. 1722Hamilton Wallace iii. i. (1774) 58 He..brought them wealth of meat and tosie drink. 1890J. Service Notandums x. 71 As tozie a howff as you would fin' in a' Glesco. 2. Slightly intoxicated; tipsy. Also tosy-mosy.
1727P. Walker R. Cameron in Biogr. Presbyt. (1827) I. 278 The Magistrates gave him Drink and kept him tozy. 1794Poems Eng., Sc., & Lat. 95 (Jam.) What puir man, whan he's tozy, But spends as he ware bein and cozy? 1828Moir Mansie Wauch xvii. (1849) 111 We had another jug, after which we were both a wee tozy-mozy. Hence tosily, -lie, adv.; ˈtosiness.
1825in Jamieson. |
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