单词 | cheapness |
释义 | cheapnessn. Quality of being cheap; lowness of price or cost; also figurative (see cheap adj.) ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > low price or rate > [noun] > cheapness cheapness1550 cheapth1606 vility1623 reasonableness1711 1550 Royal Procl. in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) II. i. xxvii. 222 In plentiful Sort and Cheapness of Price. 1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 234 For lacke of money..victuall came to such reasonable cheapnesse and price. 1678 N. Wanley Wonders Little World vi. xxvii. §3. 611/2 Allured with the cheapness of the Rent. 1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 454. ⁋6 I resolved to walk it, out of Cheapness. 1727 D. Defoe Compl. Eng. Tradesman II. i. v. 143 Cheapness causes Consumption. 1875 W. S. Jevons Money (1878) 133 The cheapness of the material. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online June 2021). > as lemmascheapness b. In poor health; out of sorts. (Hence cheapness.) slang. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > [noun] > feeling of ill health all-overness1792 all-overishness1820 cheapness1891 the world > health and disease > ill health > [adjective] > in state of ill health or diseased > disordered or out of sorts out of estatec1400 disordainedc1430 out of order1530 mistempered?1541 untemperate1541 so-soa1592 indisposed1598 discomposed1603 out of sorts1621 disorderly1655 queerish1684 out of one's gears1699 disordered1708 uneasy1725 seedy1729 queer1749 scaly1803 quisby1807 under the weather1827 all nohow1852 toneless1854 nohowish1867 chippy1868 fishy1868 off-colour1876 dicky1883 on-and-offish1888 cheap1891 crook1916 lousy1933 1891 J. S. Farmer Slang To feel cheap, to ‘have a mouth on’; to be suffering from a night's debauch. 1900 Westm. Gaz. 28 May 2/1 Putting down his weakness, lassitude, and general feeling of extreme cheapness to the climate. 1924 R. Rees April's Sowing xi. 141 ‘What's wrong with you, eh?’ ‘Nothing... A bit cheap, that's all.’ < n.1550 as lemmas |
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