druxy

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Having decayed spots or streaks of a whitish colour; rotten, decayed. dialectal,obsolete
    — […] and as the lapse of time required for seasoning would allow the decomposition of very bad druxy knots to display itself, there seems to be more reason for attaching importance to the use of seasoned timber in the framework of ships. […] all unprepared timber, let it be ever so sound, free from sap, druxy knots, […] or ground shakes.

词形变化

druxey alternative

词源

From drix (rotten part of wood) [Term?] + -y (the forms drixy, droxy and drucksy occur in various dialects), of unclear origin. The adjective is attested since at least the 1580s, in The Arte of English Poesie. One early (1913) suggestion is that drucksy is connected to (perhaps metathesis of) Scottish durk (“spoil, ruin”), but that sense appears to be a simple extension of the more usual meaning of durk, "to stab with a dirk" (itself a word of obscure origin).
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