“pussivanting”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

pussivanting

释义

pussivanting, ppl. a. and vbl. n. S.W. dial.|ˈpʊsɪˌvæntɪŋ|
Also puzzivanting.
[Corruption of pursuivant n. (a.) or v.]
Causing a disturbance, intruding, meddling, fussing.
1880Courtney & Couch Gloss. Words Cornwall 45/2 Pussivanting, part., fussing; meddling. In the latter part of the seventeenth century the Poursuivants came into the county to search out all those entitled to bear arms.1888‘Q’ Troy Town xvii. 203 ‘This 'ere pussivantin' may be relievin' to the mind, but I'm darned ef et can be good for shoe-leather.’ (Note: in the Fifteenth Century, so high was the spirit of the Trojan sea-captains,..that King Edward IV sent poursuivant after poursuivant to threaten his displeasure. The messengers had their ears slit for their pains; and ‘poursuivanting’ or ‘pussivanting’ survives as a term for ineffective bustle.)1915Galsworthy Bit o' Love i. 17 There's puzzivantin' folk as'll set an' gossip the feathers off an angel.

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