| 释义 |
† ˈempting, vbl. n.
Also emptin.
[f. empt v. + -ing1.]
= emptying; in U.S. the pl. in the sense ‘yeast’ is pronounced |ˈɛmptɪnz| but often written emptyings: see emptying 2 b.
c1440Promp. Parv. 139 Emtyng or a voydynge. 1650Salem (Mass.) Q. Court Recs. in Essex Antiquarian (1903) VII. 28 Elizabeth Pinion,..having come into the house to borrow some emptings, Tobiah took her and threw her [etc.]. 1839‘M. Clavers’ New Home xviii. 120 Mrs. Doubleday..keeps her husband's house..in unexceptionable trim. Her emptin's are the envy of the neighbourhood. 1848Lowell Bigelow Papers ix. 131 'T will take more emptins..than this noo party's gut, To give such heavy cakes ez them a start. 1889R. T. Cooke Steadfast vi. 74 Everybody wanted some of her ‘empt'ins’ to set their own. 1894M. E. Wilkins Pembroke 46, I—wanted to see—if—Sylvy had any emptins. 1902S. Clapin Dict. Amer. 173 To run emptins, to show signs of not holding out well, as for instance a speech or an enterprise of any kind. |