hempieとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From hemp +‎ -ie

名詞

hempie (複数形 hempies)

1. (obsolete, Scotland and Northern England) A criminal; someone who deserves to be, or is likely to be, hanged.
2. (obsolete, Scotland and Northern England) A rogue.
   • 1846, Richardson, Moses Aaron, The Borderer's Table Book‎^[1], volume 7, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne: Printed for the author, page 137:

     'Ha, ha, Patie lad!' quo Bessie Elliot, a free-spoken Liddesdale hempy, 'there's a wife com'd for ye the night, Patie lad.'

3. (obsolete, Scotland and Northern England) A wild, romping girl.
   • 1817, Scott, Sir Walter, Rob Roy:

     “Ay, ay,” answered Rob, “she's under lawfu' authority now; and full time, for she was a daft hempie […] ”

同意語

• (criminal): See Thesaurus:criminal and Thesaurus:gallows bird
• (rogue): See Thesaurus:troublemaker

形容詞

hempie (comparative more hempie, superlative most hempie)

1. (obsolete, Scotland and Northern England) Deserving of being hanged.
2. (obsolete, Scotland and Northern England) Wild; riotous; mischievous.
   • 1890, Wilson, Joseph, “Wor Canny Second-Born!”, in Tyneside Songs and Drolleries‎^[2], page 255:

     The forst one's just as prood as us, / Te see his bonny mate, / An' if thor spared te grow up lads, / They'll fettle real forst-rate; / But if like hempy lads they fight, / We'll heh to keep them doon, / An’ try te myek them byeth as gud / As ony in the toon.

同意語

• (Deserving of being hanged): Thesaurus:hangworthy

参照

• Wright, Joseph (1903) The English Dialect Dictionary‎^[3], volume 4, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pages 139–140

アナグラム

• Phemie, imphee