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单词 cut-up
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cut-upn.

Etymology: to cut up at cut v. Phrasal verbs; in sense 2 from the participial adjective.
1.
a. An act of cutting up.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > cause of mental pain or suffering > [noun]
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brusha1616
freighta1631
woe-heart1637
ordeala1658
cut-up1782
unpleasure1792
iron maiden1870
mental cruelty1899
1782 F. Burney Cecilia V. ix. iv. 75 ‘Why indeed, Sir,’ said Hobson, ‘I can't but say it was rather a cut-up.’
1878 M. C. Jackson Chaperon's Cares II. xi. 130 It will be a fearful cut-up for the Hartopp girls.
b. Originally U.S. (a) The act of making practical or verbal jokes; clowning. rare. (b) A person who ‘cuts up’ or capers (see to cut up 13 at cut v. Phrasal verbs, to cut out 15 at Phrasal verbs). Also attributive.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > trickery, playing jokes > [noun]
legerdemain1532
hocus-pocus1647
sham1683
funning1728
humbugging1752
humming1807
hoaxing1808
larking1813
cutting-up1843
cut-up1843
shenanigan1855
codology1860
greening1863
cod1866
leg-pulling1879
spoof1889
codding1892
spoofery1895
four-flushing1901
kidding1901
shenaniganning1924
kidology1964
the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > [noun] > jest or pleasantry > one who jests or jokes
jangler1303
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triflera1382
mower1440
jester?1510
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motleya1605
banterer1678
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joker1729
farceur1781
funster1788
plaisanteur1828
cut-up1843
kibitzer1925
1843 ‘R. Carlton’ New Purchase II. liii. 209 Art and tact..are requisite for the cut-up... If the affair is not done up to the point—it is teasing; if beyond—it is horse-play.
1843 ‘R. Carlton’ New Purchase II. liii. 209 The cut-ups were usually in wet weather.
1882 I. M. Rittenhouse Maud (1939) iii. 91 He and the Menagers are the greatest friends imaginable and such cut-ups.
a1906 ‘O. Henry’ Trimmed Lamp 226 Kappelman, the painter, was the cut-up..he got up from his chair and waltzed down the room with a waiter.
1911 R. W. Chambers Common Law v. 157 Jests emanating from the boarding-house cut-up—a blonde young man with rah-rah hair and a brier pipe.
1923 R. D. Paine Comrades Rolling Ocean viii. 129 As a college cut-up he was the star comedian of the campus.
1936 P. G. Wodehouse Laughing Gas x. 107 Anything for a laugh is your motto. Well, good night, old cut-up.
1960 B. Keaton My Wonderful World of Slapstick vi. 122 We cutups and cute kids only had one bad moment.
1969 Listener 16 Jan. 87/2 We have to take his word for most of what we're told in the book's final section; for the cut-ups and the rave-ups, for that wild weekend with ‘Ronnie’ Laing.
c. figurative. A damaging criticism or review.
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1928 J. Galsworthy Silver Spoon ii. vi He says there's a snorting cut-up of it [sc. a new publication] in ‘The Protagonist’.
2. A kind of hosiery (see quot. 1892).
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [noun] > manufactured in specific way > knitted > types of
hosiery1790
cut-up1845
handknit1911
1845 Encycl. Metrop. VIII. 749/1 6,000 frames making cut-ups, &c., produce 1,960,000 dozens.
1892 Labour Comm. Gloss. Cut-ups, articles made upon steam round-about machines, sometimes in long straight pieces, which are cut up with scissors into the shape of stockings, shirts, or pants, and sewn together by a machine.
1893 Westm. Gaz. 10 Mar. 6/3Cut-ups’ are an inferior class of hosiery turned out by the machine in long straight lengths.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online December 2019).
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