Widdiful is a noun describing someone who deserved to be hanged, referring to a gallows-bird.
Widdiful es un sustantivo que describe a alguien que merecía ser colgado, refiriéndose a una persona destinada a la horca.
| Front | Widdiful \wIdIfUl\ |
|---|---|
| Back | noun Somebody who deserved to be hanged. [The story behind it starts with the northern English and Scottish word "widdy" or "widdie", the local forms of the standard English "withy", a flexible branch from a tree such as willow used to make baskets or to tie or fasten things together. One sense was of a band or rope made of intertwined withies. Later it came to mean a halter and in particular a hangman's rope. To cheat the widdy meant to escape hanging. By an obvious process of transfer the sense of gallows-bird grew up, one destined to fill a widdy.] "'Will you shut the bloody noise off, you bloody widdiful!' Philips said in a shout that was nearly a scream." |
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