单词 | ever so |
释义 | > as lemmasever so a. ever so. extracted from everadv.adj. (a) In hypothetical and concessive clauses preceding adjectives or adverbs: in any conceivable degree. Now somewhat archaic.Probably substituted, on the grounds of being thought more logical, for the much older never so: see never so at never adv. 4a. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adverb] > very tooc888 swith971 wellOE wellOE fullOE rightc1175 muchc1225 wellac1275 gainlya1375 endlyc1440 hard?1440 very1448 odda1500 great1535 jolly1549 fellc1600 veryvery1649 gooda1655 vastly1664 strange1667 bloody1676 ever so1686 heartily1727 real1771 precious1775 quarely1805 murry1818 très1819 freely1820 powerfula1822 gurt1824 almighty1830 heap1832 all-fired1833 gradely1850 real1856 bonny1857 heavens1858 veddy1859 canny1867 some1867 oh-so1881 storming1883 spanking1886 socking1896 hefty1898 velly1898 fair dinkum1904 plurry1907 Pygmalion1914 dinkum1915 beaucoup1918 dirty1920 molto1923 snorting1924 honking1929 hellishing1931 thumpingly1948 way1965 mega1966 mondo1968 seriously1970 totally1972 mucho1978 stonking1990 1686 G. Burnet Lett. Present State Italy iii. 123 When it hath rained ever so little..the Carts go deep, and are hardly drawn. 1739 J. Richards Annuities on Lives 96 This is often the Case, let the Covenants of the Lease be ever so strict and binding. 1764 T. Reid Inq. Human Mind vi. §3 His eyes, though ever so perfect. 1777 H. Cartwright Lett. Female Educ. 61 On every occasion continue stedfast and immoveable in the cause of duty, though ever so much provocated to forsake it. 1800 Locke's Some Thoughts conc. Educ. (rev. ed.) §189. 213 Not to take an answer, though ever so [1692 and subsequent eds. read never so] full and satisfactory. 1816 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. (1828) II. xix. 142 If ever so many queens are introduced into a hive. 1856 Pop. Lecturer New Ser. 1 314 Those two classes adopt two different forms of a very old proverb, which sets forth that home is home, be it ever so homely. 1881 A. Trollope Ayala's Angel I. xx. 243 The chimes must be heard at midnight, let a young man be ever so well given to the proprieties. 1918 R. Frost Let. 24 Oct. (2014) I. 632 If you bounce ever so little with the skid you'll tip up onto your crank shaft. 1941 P. Faxon in N.Y. Herald Tribune 29 June (This Week section) 9/3 Be it ever so humble your living room is a ‘lounge’. 1997 A. Barnett This Time iii. 92 The symbolic representative of each one of us, be he ever so lowly. (b) colloquial. Used in affirmative contexts as a vague intensive, often expressing enthusiasm or gratitude: to an indefinite or unlimited degree; very. ΚΠ 1793 J. Trapp tr. A. Rochon Voy. Madagascar (rev. ed.) Prelim. Disc. p. xxviii Tacamacca, stinking-wood, and ever so many other valuable trees. 1848 A. B. Evans Leicestershire Words (at cited word) I met him swanking along the road, ever so genteel. 1858 N. Hawthorne Fr. & Ital. Jrnls. (1872) I. 13 Ever so little to their credit. 1870 A. D. T. Whitney We Girls i. 3 Ever so many years ago. 1885 ‘F. Anstey’ Tinted Venus 79 Thank you ever so much, Leander dear! 1918 V. Woolf Diary 4 July (1979) I. 117 The first walk we've had for ever so long. 1962 P. Bracken I hate to housekeep Bk. xi. 140 Using the eyeliner ever so carefully. 2011 T. Ronald Becoming Nancy (2012) viii. 113 Your hair looks ever so nice today, Moira! (c) Used elliptically. (i) colloquial (chiefly British). Short for: ever so much. Now chiefly in expressions of gratitude; thanks ever so: see thank n. Phrases 1b. ΚΠ a1816 R. B. Sheridan School for Scandal (rev. ed.) ii. ii, in Wks. (1821) II. 54 Though Sir Peter's ill-humour may vex me ever so, it never shall provoke me to [etc.]. 1843 W. M. Thackeray Jérôme Paturot 349 If..the caricaturist had made fun of me ever so, I would..have put up with the insult. 1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. (at cited word) She fret ever so when Harry 'listed. 1891 All Year Round 4 July 21/2 ‘You can't see Mabel, not if you want ever so,’ he said, standing there shoeless and ruffle-headed. 1915 Pearson's Mag. May 530/2 You're a brick... Thank you ever so. 1923 E. Gepp Essex Dial. Dict. (ed. 2) 44 Drawed out ever so she was. 1949 K. Ferrier Let. 18 May (2004) iii. 79 Ta ever so for doing all the donkey work. 2002 E. Wooff Mud Puppy xx. 197 ‘You're in luck. That's where I'm going too’. ‘Ta ever so’. (ii) English regional (now archaic and rare). if it was ever so: however great the need might be. ΚΠ 1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words I. 215 ‘I wouldn't do it if it were ever so,’ i.e. nothing should induce me to do it. 1858 C. M. Yonge Christmas Mummers viii. 115 I couldn't lead the worship if it was ever so! 1882 E. L. Chamberlain Gloss. W. Worcs. Words (at cited word) ‘I wunt ax 'im for bread, not if it was ever so’. 1973 P. O'Brian HMS Surprise (1996) iv. 74 When I nursed Moss on his death-bed, he was that cross and fractious! No goose-pie, no mandragore, no posset, not if it was ever so. 1995 J. M. Sims-Kimbrey Wodds & Doggerybaw: Lincs. Dial. Dict. 93/2 Yon doctor ast me ter show 'im me chist, but A cunt, not even if it wus ever so. Tint daycent, it int, a man seein' me chist! < as lemmas |
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