scouryとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

scoury

1. Showery, marked by intermittent rain showers and wind.
   • 1900, Henrietta Keddie, Logan's loyalty, by Sarah Tytler, page 211:

     '... scoury (tempestuous) night.'

   • 1910, One Hundred Choice Selections, page 204:

     "... scoury night," he said, as he looked up into the dark, portentous sky.

   • 1951, Chambers's Edinburgh Journal:

     ... scoury sky […]

語源 2

From scour (“suffer diarrhea”) +‎ -y.

形容詞

scoury

1. Suffering from scouring (diarrhea).
   • 1980, The New Farm:

     ... scoury calves sometimes die. As with so many livestock disorders, prevention is the name of the game. At one time every calf I brought on the farm caught a wicked brand of scours. Evidently, previously purchased baby bovines had […]

   • 1916, American Breeder, page 4:

     ... scoury, weak, drawn up, and unpromising. I still continued to feed the cows heavily because I wanted them to grow the calves well. But I couldn't get the calves to do any good, […]

2. Shabby.
   • 1876, James Moir Porteous, Brethren in the Keelhowes: Brethrenism Tested by the Word of God, page 171:

     ... [the] scoury-looking fellow I saw you speaking to at the bridge-end that day of our Sacrament was one of that kind of folk?

   • 1977, Harvard University. Library, Harvard Library Bulletin:

     ... scoury coat, ...