| 单词 |
patchcock |
| 释义 |
† ˈpatchcock, ˈpatchock Obs. rare—1.
[Known only in the passage cited; in which also the reading is uncertain. The first element is app. patch n.1 (or ? n.2); the second may be cock, or the dim. suffix -ock. See note below.]
A term used by Spenser of the degenerate English in Ireland, either in reference to their character and habits, their mongrel breed, or their costume: ? a base or mean fellow, ? a ragamuffin.
1596Spenser State Irel. (Wks. Grosart IX. 104; Globe 636/2), The rest which dwell aboue in Connagh(t) and Munster,..and some in Leinster and Ulster, ar degenerate and growen to be as very Patchcockes [v.r. Patchock(e)s] as the wild Irishe.
[The Lambeth MS. 510, which was the copy submitted to the Abp. of Canterbury for licence, dated by Spenser and initialled E. S., from which Grosart prints his text, reads, lf. 39, Patchcockes; but three other MSS., B.M. Add. 22022 (printed in the Globe text), Harl. 7388, Camb. Dd. 10. 60 have Patchockes, -ocks. Camb. Dd. 14. 28 has Rakehells. If the word was patchockes, it was perhaps the same as Shakespeare's ‘very paiocke’, if this is read pajocke. Cf. same play iii. iv. 102 ‘a King of shreds and patches’.] |
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