weather-gaw

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈwɛðəɡɔː/    美 /ˈwɛðəɹˌɡɔ/|/-ˌɡɑ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An instance of some phenomenon in the sky said to signal bad weather, such as an incomplete or secondary rainbow, or a parhelion or sun dog; a weather-gall or water-gall. Scotland,UK,dialectal,often
    — They asked Wattie, who was a very religious man, what could have induced him to gather his sheep on the Sabbath day? He answered, that he had seen an ill-hued weather-gaw that morning, and was afraid it was going to be a drift.
  2. A period of fine weather in the midst of bad weather. Scotland,UK,dialectal,often
    — "This is a fine day after the storm." "Aye, but aa doot it's a weather-gaw."

词形变化

weather-gaws plural

词源

Probably borrowed from Scots weather-ga, weather-gaw, weather-gow, possibly from English weather-gall, from weather + gall (“blister, swelling; (figurative) something exasperating or galling”).
cognates
* Dutch weergal
* German wettergalle
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