quisquousとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Shared with quisquis and quiscoskos; from Latin quisquis (“whosoever”) or by reduplication of Latin quis (“of what kind”).

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈkwɪsk(w)əs/

形容詞

quisquous (comparative more quisquous, superlative most quisquous)

1. (Scotland, rare) Hard to deal with; dubious; of people: having a character difficult to assess.

   Synonyms: mysterious, perplexing, puzzling, dubious, doubtful, debatable, quisquis, quiscoskos

   Antonyms: clear, familiar, indubious

   • 1830, rev. Robert Wodrow, rev. Robert Burns, The History of the Sufferings of the Church of Scotland, from the Restoration to the Revolution, Tom 2‎^[1]:

     Besides, the truths delivered by ministers in the fields upon quisquous subjects, with no small caution by some, and pretty safely, were heard and taken up by the hearers, according to their humours and opinions, many times far different from, and altogether without the cautions given by the preacher, which either could not, or were not understood by them.

関連する語

• quiscoskos
• quisquis

参照

• “quisquous”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “quisquous” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
• John Jamieson (1808), “QUISQUOUS, adj.”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: […], volume II (L–Z), Edinburgh: […] University Press; for W[illiam] Creech, A[rchibald] Constable & Co., and W[illiam] Blackwood; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, & Orme, T[homas] Cadell & W. Davies, and H. D. Symonds, OCLC 946611778.