释义 |
dunnamany|ˈdʌnəˌmɛnɪ| colloquial form of (I) don't know how many. So ˈdunnaˌmuch, (I) don't know how much. Cf. dunno.
1831R. Lower Tom Cladpole's Jurney to Lunnun 14 So arter dun-a-much more talk, He said he must be gwyn. 1853W. D. Cooper Gloss. Sussex (ed. 2) 43 Dunnamany and Dunnamuch, corruptions of I don't know how many or much. 1906Kipling Puck 267 Justabout tore the gizzards out of I dunnamany. Ibid. 273 The Pharisees just about flowed..down the beach to the boat, I dunnamany of 'em. 1946G. Heyer Reluctant Widow iii. 41 Your lordship knows I've been with Mr. Hitchin a dunnamany years. |