scaddleとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From 中期英語 scathel (“harmful”), from Old Norse *skǫðull, from Proto-Germanic *skaþulaz (“harmful”), equivalent to scathe +‎ -el. Cognate with Old High German scadel (“injurious, harmful”), Gothic 𐍃𐌺𐌰𐌸𐌿𐌻𐍃 (skaþuls, “injurious, wicked”).

形容詞

scaddle (comparative more scaddle, superlative most scaddle)

1. (UK, dialectal or obsolete) Wild, mischievous, thievish.
2. (UK, dialectal or obsolete, chiefly of animals) Timid, nervous, skittish.

関連する語

• scatheful
• skedaddle

参照

• Joseph Wright, editor (1905), “SCADDLE”, 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, page 231.
• 1670, John Ray, Collection of English proverbs - Devonshire