| 单词 | dear, dear! |
| 释义 | > as lemmasDear, dear! Dear!, Oh dear!, Dear, dear!, Dear me!: exclamations expressing surprise, astonishment, anxiety, distress, regret, sympathy, or other emotion. dear bless, dear help, dear love, dear save us (you): ejaculations of astonishment, usually implying an appeal for higher help (obsolete or dialect). dear knows! goodness knows, Heaven knows (I do not). These uses with a verb suggest that dear represents or implies a fuller dear Lord! Thus dear knows! is exactly equivalent to the Lord or God knows!; cf. also the elliptical Save us! Help us! Keep us! and the like; but the historical evidence is not conclusive. (A derivation from Italian dio, God, as conjectured by some, resting upon modern English pronunciation of dea(r, finds no support in the history of the word.) ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > exclamation of emotion [interjection] goodness1623 agad1672 Godsokers1672 Oh dear!1694 law1763 lud1767 Dear me!1773 Lor1776 dear knows!1805 Great God!1819 Great Scott1852 Jehoshaphat1857 lors1860 Great Sun!1867 Great Caesar!1870 gracious me!1884 my (giddy, sainted, etc.) aunt!1886 snakes1891 lieber Gott1898 my gosh!1920 cor1931 the mind > mental capacity > expectation > surprise, unexpectedness > exclamation of surprise [interjection] whatOE well, wellOE avoyc1300 ouc1300 ay1340 lorda1393 ahaa1400 hillaa1400 whannowc1450 wow1513 why?1520 heydaya1529 ah1538 ah me!a1547 fore me!a1547 o me!a1547 what the (also a) goodyear1570 precious coals1576 Lord have mercy (on us)1581 good heavens1588 whau1589 coads1590 ay me!1591 my stars!a1593 Gods me1595 law1598 Godso1600 to go out1600 coads-nigs1608 for mercy!a1616 good stars!1615 mercy on us (also me, etc.)!a1616 gramercy1617 goodness1623 what next?1662 mon Dieu1665 heugh1668 criminy1681 Lawd1696 the dickens1697 (God, etc.) bless my heart1704 alackaday1705 (for) mercy's sake!1707 my1707 deuce1710 gracious1712 goodly and gracious1713 my word1722 my stars and garters!1758 lawka1774 losha1779 Lord bless me (also you, us, etc.)1784 great guns!1795 mein Gott1795 Dear me!1805 fancy1813 well, I'm sure!1815 massy1817 Dear, dear!1818 to get off1818 laws1824 Mamma mia1824 by crikey1826 wisha1826 alleleu1829 crackey1830 Madonna mia1830 indeed1834 to go on1835 snakes1839 Jerusalem1840 sapristi1840 oh my days1841 tear and ages1841 what (why, etc.) in time?1844 sakes alive!1846 gee willikers1847 to get away1847 well, to be sure!1847 gee1851 Great Scott1852 holy mackerel!1855 doggone1857 lawsy1868 my wig(s)!1871 gee whiz1872 crimes1874 yoicks1881 Christmas1882 hully gee1895 'ullo1895 my hat!1899 good (also great) grief!1900 strike me pink!1902 oo-er1909 what do you know?1909 cripes1910 coo1911 zowiec1913 can you tie that?1918 hot diggety1924 yeow1924 ziggety1924 stone (or stiffen) the crows1930 hullo1931 tiens1932 whammo1932 po po po1936 how about that?1939 hallo1942 brother1945 tie that!1948 surprise1953 wowee1963 yikes1971 never1974 to sod off1976 whee1978 mercy1986 yipes1989 the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > exclamation of wonder [interjection] ahaa1400 ocha1522 heydaya1529 ah1538 ah me!a1547 fore me!a1547 o me!a1547 gossea1556 ay me!1591 o (also oh) rare!1596 law1598 strangec1670 lack-a-day1695 stap my vitals1697 alackaday1705 prodigious1707 my word1722 (by) golly1743 gosh1757 Dear me!1805 Madre de Dios1815 Great Jove!1819 I snum1825 crikey1826 my eye1826 crackey1830 snakes1839 Great Scott1852 holy mackerel!1855 whoops1870 this beats my grandmother1883 wow1892 great balls of fire1893 oo-er1909 zowiec1913 crimes1929 yowa1943 wowee1963 Madre mia!1964 yikes1971 whee1978 chingas1984 1694 W. Congreve Double-dealer v. i. 78 O dear, you make me blush. 1719 A. Ramsay Epist. to J. Arbuckle 27 Then did ideas dance (dear safe us!) As they'd been daft. 1769 F. Burney Early Jrnls. & Lett. (1988) I. 51 O dear! O dear! how melancholy has been to us this last week. 1769 F. Burney Early Jrnls. & Lett. (1988) I. 51 O dear! — I shall die! 1773 O. Goldsmith She stoops to Conquer iv. 74 Dear me! dear me! I'm sure there's nothing in my behavoor to put me up on a level with one of that stamp. 1805 E. Cavanagh Let. 4 Oct. in M. Wilmot & C. Wilmot Russ. Jrnls. (1934) ii. 190 I never seen such a good Lady..nor so generous I've reason to say dear knows. 1818 M. M. Sherwood Stories Church Catech. (ed. 4) ix. 48 ‘O, dear!’ says Mrs. Hicks, ‘do you think I am like your fine folks?’ 1818 M. M. Sherwood Fairchild Family I. xii. 97 ‘Dear! how tiresome it must be to be so religious!’ 1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist I. iv. 63 Dear me!..he's very small. 1839 C. Sinclair Holiday House iii. 40 ‘Oh dear! oh dear! what shall I do?’ cried Harry. 1844 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit xlv. 519 Her's was not a flinty heart. Oh dear no! 1849 E. Bulwer-Lytton Caxtons I. i. iv. 26 ‘Dear, dear!’ cried my mother..‘my poor flower-pot that I prized so much!’ 1876 White Cross xxxvii. 236 ‘Dear knows’, said Catharine, ‘when we shall see them back.’ 1880 W. H. Patterson Gloss. Words Antrim & Down Dear bless you!.. Dear help you!.. Dear knows, a common rejoinder, meaning ‘who knows’ or ‘nobody knows’, probably meant originally, ‘God only knows’. Dear love you! God love you, an exclamation. 1916 J. Joyce Portrait of Artist v. 203 The dear knows you might try to be in time for your lectures. 1969 Outlook Mar. 226 The curate waded out into the sea of dear knows what but mostly rubbish. < as lemmas |
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