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单词 hangment
释义 ˈhangment Obs. exc. dial.
[f. hang v. + -ment: perh. after judgement.]
1. Hanging.
c1440Promp. Parv. 225/2 Hangement [v.r. hongment], suspendium, suspencio.c1440Gesta Rom. xxxvi. 146 (Harl. MS.) This is to seye, My soule hathe choson hongment.c1449Pecock Repr. iii. viii. 324 Power into hangement and into deeth.1888Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk., Hangment..also hanging, execution.
2. (See quots.)
1825Brockett N.C. Gloss., s.v., To play the hangment, is to be much enraged, to play the very deuce.1828Craven Dial., Hangment..an expression of surprise, as, ‘what the hangment!’1887Pall Mall G. 19 Oct. 6/1 ‘What the dickens have you to do with it?..who the hangment are you?’
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