gillie

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈɡɪli/    美 /ˈɡɪli/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A male attendant of a Scottish Highland chief. Scotland
    — A Highland chief being as absolute in his patriarchal authority as any prince, had a corresponding number of officers attached to his person. […] Our officer of Engineers, so often quoted, has given us a distinct list of the domestic officers, who, […] belonged to the establishment of a Highland chief. These are, […] 4. Gillie-more, or sword-bearer, alluded to in the text. 5. Gillie-Casflue, who carried the chief, if on foot, over the fords. 6. Gillie-comstrain, who leads the chief's horse. 7. Gillie-Thrusha-narinsh, the baggage-man. 8. The Piper. 9. The piper's gillie, or attendant who carries the bagpipe.
  2. A gill of an alcoholic drink. Scotland
    — Fareweel, my rhyme-compoſing billie! / Your native ſoil was right ill-willie; / But may ye flouriſh like a lily, / Now bonilie! / I'll toaſt ye in my hindmoſt gillie, / Tho' owre the Sea!
  3. A fishing and hunting guide; a man or boy who attends to a person who is fishing or hunting, especially in Scotland. Ireland,Scotland,UK
    — Every deerstalker will bear witness to the eagerness of Highlanders in pursuit of their old favourite game, the dun deer; the mountaineer shews what he is when his eye kindles and his nostril dilates at the sight of a noble stag; when the gillie forgets his master in his keenness, and the southern lags behind; when it is "bellows to mend" and London dinners are remembered with regret.
动词 v.
  1. To be a gillie, a fishing or hunting guide, for (someone). intransitive
    — I had taken bigger fish on the Alta, while fishing as Tony Pulitzer's guest on the Jöraholmen farm, but never under circumstances as bizarre as the day I found myself being ghillied by a girl.

词形变化

gillies plural ghillie alternative gilly alternative gillies present,singular,third-person gillying participle,present gillied participle,past gillied past gillies plural

词汇关系

衍生词
ghillie suit gillie suit gillie-casflue gillie-wetfoot

词源

词源 1
From Scottish Gaelic gille (“helper”), from Middle Irish gilla (“youth, young man; boy, male child; messenger, page, servant”), possibly borrowed from Old Norse gildr (“brawny, stout; of full worth”). Compare Irish giolla (“boy”).
词源 2
From gill (“drink measure for spirits”) + -ie; probably a nonce word coined by Scottish poet Robert Burns (1759–1796) to maintain the rhyme in a poem entitled On a Scotch Bard Gone to the West Indies, first published in 1786: see the quotation.
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