rainifiedとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

rainified (not comparable)

1. (UK, US, dialectal) Inclined to rain.
   • 1911, The Boy's Own Annual:

     ... it certainly looked rainified, but it had done this so often of late that my conclusion was that it was "the same old change," and would all clear off with the advent of day. To a man who had been looking for it, dawn was just visible when I called […]

   • 1958, The Colorado Magazine:

     ... looks rather rainified tonight hope it wont for this is my night to stand guard Tues. April 12. Stood guard last night till 12 oclock and as my luck would have it the rain did not come until just as my hour for guard Expired.

   • 1993, David Atkins, The cuckoo in June : tales of a Sussex orchard, page 53:

     "Them there apple boxes be cledgy with mud," sasid my foreman, "I disremember it being so rainified since I be a nipper".

   • 2012, Noel Streatfeild, Tea by the nursery fire : a children's nanny at the turn of the century, page 155:

     Presently the rain thinend and a weak sun tried to sun. 'Better move,' said Dick, 'it still looks rainified.'

Further reading

• Joseph Wright, editor (1905), “RAINIFIED”, in The English Dialect Dictionary: […], volume V (R–S), London: Henry Frowde, […], publisher to the English Dialect Society, […]; New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, →OCLC.
• 2015 May 21, David Crystal, The Disappearing Dictionary: A Treasury of Lost English Dialect Words, Pan Macmillan, →ISBN, page 136:

  Herefordshire, Middlesex, Surrey / Inclined to rain. Frpm Middlesex: 'I'm afeard it looks rather rainified this morning'. From Herefordshire: 'It blows rainified'.

• 1918, Dialect Notes, page 16:

  ... rainified. Rainy appearance of sky. "It's looked kind o' rainified all the morning."

• 1902, Edward FitzGerald, The Variorum and Definitive Edition of the Poetical and Prose Writings of Edward Fitzgerald: Including a Complete Bibliography and Interesting Personal and Literary Notes, page 232:

  ... find this good old form supplanted by a vile compound : instead of the sky looking squally-like, rainy-like, "my dear friends" will say squallified, "rainified," &c., ...

• 1893, English Dialect Society, Publications, page 21:

  ... rainified, stormified, thundrified, &c.