| 单词 | drunken reel |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdrunken reel 2. A whirling or spinning motion; (also) an act or example of reeling or staggering. Now chiefly in drunken reel. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > revolution or rotation > [noun] > whirling > an act of whirl?a1505 reel?1572 swinge1583 whirligig1589 wirble1848 the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > unsteady movement > [noun] > reeling or staggering > a reeling or staggering movement reel?1572 stagger1600 wintle1786 stacker1870 ?1572 R. Sempill Premonitioun Barnis of Leith (single sheet) Fortoun with a Reill Hes wrocht thame ane vnabill charr..With turning of hir Quheill. c1600 A. Montgomerie Poems (2000) I. 16 Quhen with a quhisk sho quhirlis about hir quheill Rude is that rattill running with a reill. 1642 Sir T. Browne Religio Medici i. 7 Those unstable judgements..cannot consist in the narrow point and centre of justice, without a reele or stagger to the circumference. 1678 V. Alsop Melius Inquirendum ii. v. 239 They ran from Superstition, to Prophaness; the common Reel of those who to avoid one extream, run into the opposite. 1851 N. Hawthorne House of Seven Gables xvi. 258 To steady herself from the reel and vibration which affected her more immediate sphere. 1878 R. Browning Poets Croisic clvii The drunken reel Of vice and folly round him. 1938 San Antonio (Texas) Light 8 Nov. b4/5 The stagger of a midnight brawler first put Dr. Wiener on the road to the discovery that chaos really existed, for, according to him, a drunken reel had no apparent relation to the previous or next drunken reel. 1961 Florence (S. Carolina) Morning News 26 Nov. a4/2 One toy is a ‘jovial bartender’...This alleged toy is complete with cocktail shaker, martini glass, drunken reel and whiskey-red complexion. 2007 San Antonio (Texas) Express-News (Nexis) 10 May 4 f Pirates were hot in pop culture long before Johnny Depp slathered on eyeliner and perfected his drunken reel. < as lemmas |
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