单词 | cut-up |
释义 | cut-upn. 1. a. An act of cutting up. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > cause of mental pain or suffering > [noun] sorrowOE ail?c1225 scorpion?c1225 dolec1290 angera1325 anguishc1330 cupa1340 aggrievancea1400 discomfortc1405 afflictionc1429 sytec1440 pressurea1500 constraint1509 tenterhook1532 grief1535 annoying1566 troubler1567 griper1573 vexation1588 infliction1590 trouble1591 temptationc1595 load1600 torment1600 wringer1602 sorance1609 inflicting1611 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. ΘΚΠ 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 bourder1330 triflera1382 mower1440 jester?1510 dizzardc1540 patch1549 pleasant1595 fiddle1600 motleya1605 banterer1678 morosoph1693 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. ΚΠ 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). ΘΚΠ 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. 6/3 ‘Cut-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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