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語源

From Middle English scathel (“harmful”), from 古期英語 *sceaþol, from Proto-Germanic *skaþulaz (“harmful”), equivalent to scathe +‎ -el. Cognate with Old High German scadel (“injurious, harmful”), Gothic �������������� (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. P. Putnam’s Sons, →OCLC, page 231.
• 1670, John Ray, Collection of English proverbs - Devonshire