falling-downadj.adv.

Brit.

/ˈfɔːlɪŋˌdaʊn/, U.S.

/ˈfɔlɪŋˌdaʊn/,

/ˈfɑlɪŋˌdaʊn/

Forms: see falling adj. and down adv.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: falling adj., down adv.

Etymology: < falling adj. + down adv. after to fall down at fall v. Phrasal verbs 1. Compare fall-down adj.

A. adj. (chiefly attributive).

1. That falls down or collapses; (of a building) ruinous.With quot. c1384 cf. fallen star n. 1, and also falling star n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [adjective] > dilapidated or ruinous

brychec1000

forcrazedc1320

falling-downc1384

ruinousc1384

forwordenc1450

ruin1467

failed1490

ruinatea1538

ruinated1555

ruined1560

ragged1565

dilapidate1590

through-shot1596

tattered1599

tottered1615

dilapidateda1806

delabrated1813

broken-down1816

tumble-down1819

run-down1832

tumblyc1855

raggedy1921

shot through1926

shot to hell or pieces1926

raddled1949

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > falling > [adjective]

fallingeOE

tumblingc1374

falling-downc1384

cadukec1420

rueing1557

downfalling1573

cadenta1616

deciduous1656

decident1674

c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Royal) (1850) Jude ii. 13 Thes [sc. the followers of Cain] ben in her metys filthes..erringe sterres [L. sidera errantia], or fallinge doun.

1758 Whitehall Evening-post 24–27 June [He] was in Second Mourning, with a black Velvet falling-down Collar to his Coat.

1806 New Ann. Reg. 1805 308/1 Weatherbeaten and falling down cottages are occasionally so placed..as to excite our attention.., in several of Mr. Candy's paintings.

1876 F. R. Goulding Marooner's Island xxxv. 444 His falling-down house has been deserted.

1919 in Cooperative Extension Work in Agric. & Home Econ. 1918 (U.S. Dept. Agric.) 51 22 [families] improved the appearance of their home grounds by..removing falling-down buildings, arranging flowers, [etc.].

1972 Guardian 12 Dec. 10/6 Mr Brian Rix..with his falling down trousers.

1988 L. L. Miller Moonfire xxii. 320 He laughed and entangled his fingers in her falling-down hair.

2008 S. Toltz Fraction of Whole iv. 459 Drug education—have schoolchildren spend a week living with a junkie in a falling-down squat.

2. colloquial (originally and chiefly U.S.). Designating an extremely drunk person or extreme drunkenness or drinking of alcohol. Cf. sense B.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [adjective] > descriptive of excessive drinker

three-bottle1806

falling-down1934

1934 Valley Morning Star (Harlingen, Texas) 5 Aug. 4/2 We sat on a knoll until a falling down drunk sprawled before us and began loudly to snore.

1977 Washington Post 16 June (Va. Weekly section) 2/4 Eight cases of mental disorder, six cases of plain old falling-down drunkenness and one case of heart spasms.

1998 Harper's Mag. July 27/1 It's in college that most Americans do their most serious falling-down drinking..and mindless Dionysian-type reveling.

2000 P. Johnson & C. O'Brien World Food: New Orleans 184 If your pleasure includes piano bar singalongs..or old-fashioned falling-down drunkenness then get yourself down to..Bourbon Street.

2014 E. Johnson Jazz Child x. 141 A boy..told me that my mother was nothing but a falling-down drunk.

B. adv.

colloquial (originally and chiefly U.S.). To a degree that causes a person to fall down; extremely. Esp. in falling-down drunk.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adverb] > extremely or exceedingly

swithlyc888

micklelyeOE

swith971

hardOE

un-i-fohOE

sevenfoldlOE

unmeet?c1225

innerlyc1330

horribly1340

too1340

sore1474

horriblec1475

vehemently1483

outrageous1487

done?a1513

exquisite1529

strangely1532

exceeding1535

exceedingly1535

angardlyc1540

angerlyc1540

choicec1540

vengeable1542

vengeably?1550

extremelya1554

monstrous1569

thrice1579

amain1587

extremea1591

damnably1598

fellc1600

tyrannically1602

exquisitely1603

damnedly1607

preciously1607

damnablea1616

impensively1620

excellingly1621

main1632

fearful1634

vengeancelya1640

upsy1650

impensely1657

twadding1657

vastly1664

hideous1667

mainly1670

consumed1707

consumedly1707

outrageously1749

damned1757

nation1771

shockingly1777

deuced1779

darn1789

darned1807

felly1807

varsal1814

awful1816

awfy1816

frightfully1816

deucedly1819

dogged1819

awfully1820

gallowsa1823

shocking1831

tremendously1832

everlasting1833

terribly1833

fearfully1835

ripping1838

poison1840

thundering1853

frighteninglyc1854

raring1854

hell's own1863

goldarned1866

goddamned1870

doggone1871

acutely1872

whooping1874

stupidly1878

everlastingly1879

hideously1882

densely1883

storming1883

good and1885

thunderingly1885

crazy1887

tremendous1887

madly1888

goldarn1892

howling1895

murderously1916

rasted1919

goddam1921

bitchingly1923

Christly1923

bitching1929

falling-down1930

lousy1932

appallingly1937

stratospherically1941

Christ almighty1945

effing1945

focking1956

dagnab1961

drop-dead1980

hella1987

totes2006

1930 M. Anderson et al. All Quiet on Western Front (transcribed from film) We're going to get falling-down drunk to night.

1951 J. Jones From Here to Eternity xlvi. 693 He had been falling-down slobbering drunk for two days, but it was not enough, and he would have preferred more.

1971 Washington Post 18 June b14/7 By some magic it gets funny again, hysterically, eye-wateringly, falling-down funny.

1989 Assoc. Press (Nexis) 29 Dec. He was red-eyed and falling-down tired.

2001 W. Ferguson Happiness (2003) xlii. 231 You two will want to catch up on old times, swap some stories. Maybe get falling-down drunk and maudlin.

Compounds

† falling-down collar n. Obsolete a wide collar that lies flat, fashionable in the 16th and 17th centuries; = falling collar n. at falling adj. Compounds 2.

ΚΠ

1758 Whitehall Evening-post 24–27 June [He] was in Second Mourning, with a black Velvet falling-down Collar to his Coat.

1794 E. M. James tr. Comtesse de Genlis Select. Ann. of Virtue 242 This Prince [sc. Henry II]..introduced the use of ruffs, and bands, or falling down collars.

1844 W. H. Carpenter Pict. Notices: Mem. Sir Anthony Van Dyck 103 He wears a falling down collar edged with lace, tied in front with a cord.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	falling-down
释义	falling-downadj.adv. Brit. /ˈfɔːlɪŋˌdaʊn/, U.S. /ˈfɔlɪŋˌdaʊn/, /ˈfɑlɪŋˌdaʊn/ Forms: see falling adj. and down adv. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: falling adj., down adv. Etymology: < falling adj. + down adv. after to fall down at fall v. Phrasal verbs 1. Compare fall-down adj. A. adj. (chiefly attributive). 1. That falls down or collapses; (of a building) ruinous.With quot. c1384 cf. fallen star n. 1, and also falling star n. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [adjective] > dilapidated or ruinous brychec1000 forcrazedc1320 falling-downc1384 ruinousc1384 forwordenc1450 ruin1467 failed1490 ruinatea1538 ruinated1555 ruined1560 ragged1565 dilapidate1590 through-shot1596 tattered1599 tottered1615 dilapidateda1806 delabrated1813 broken-down1816 tumble-down1819 run-down1832 tumblyc1855 raggedy1921 shot through1926 shot to hell or pieces1926 raddled1949 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > falling > [adjective] fallingeOE tumblingc1374 falling-downc1384 cadukec1420 rueing1557 downfalling1573 cadenta1616 deciduous1656 decident1674 c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Royal) (1850) Jude ii. 13 Thes [sc. the followers of Cain] ben in her metys filthes..erringe sterres [L. sidera errantia], or fallinge doun. 1758 Whitehall Evening-post 24–27 June [He] was in Second Mourning, with a black Velvet falling-down Collar to his Coat. 1806 New Ann. Reg. 1805 308/1 Weatherbeaten and falling down cottages are occasionally so placed..as to excite our attention.., in several of Mr. Candy's paintings. 1876 F. R. Goulding Marooner's Island xxxv. 444 His falling-down house has been deserted. 1919 in Cooperative Extension Work in Agric. & Home Econ. 1918 (U.S. Dept. Agric.) 51 22 [families] improved the appearance of their home grounds by..removing falling-down buildings, arranging flowers, [etc.]. 1972 Guardian 12 Dec. 10/6 Mr Brian Rix..with his falling down trousers. 1988 L. L. Miller Moonfire xxii. 320 He laughed and entangled his fingers in her falling-down hair. 2008 S. Toltz Fraction of Whole iv. 459 Drug education—have schoolchildren spend a week living with a junkie in a falling-down squat. 2. colloquial (originally and chiefly U.S.). Designating an extremely drunk person or extreme drunkenness or drinking of alcohol. Cf. sense B. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [adjective] > descriptive of excessive drinker three-bottle1806 falling-down1934 1934 Valley Morning Star (Harlingen, Texas) 5 Aug. 4/2 We sat on a knoll until a falling down drunk sprawled before us and began loudly to snore. 1977 Washington Post 16 June (Va. Weekly section) 2/4 Eight cases of mental disorder, six cases of plain old falling-down drunkenness and one case of heart spasms. 1998 Harper's Mag. July 27/1 It's in college that most Americans do their most serious falling-down drinking..and mindless Dionysian-type reveling. 2000 P. Johnson & C. O'Brien World Food: New Orleans 184 If your pleasure includes piano bar singalongs..or old-fashioned falling-down drunkenness then get yourself down to..Bourbon Street. 2014 E. Johnson Jazz Child x. 141 A boy..told me that my mother was nothing but a falling-down drunk. B. adv. colloquial (originally and chiefly U.S.). To a degree that causes a person to fall down; extremely. Esp. in falling-down drunk. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adverb] > extremely or exceedingly swithlyc888 micklelyeOE swith971 hardOE un-i-fohOE sevenfoldlOE unmeet?c1225 innerlyc1330 horribly1340 too1340 sore1474 horriblec1475 vehemently1483 outrageous1487 done?a1513 exquisite1529 strangely1532 exceeding1535 exceedingly1535 angardlyc1540 angerlyc1540 choicec1540 vengeable1542 vengeably?1550 extremelya1554 monstrous1569 thrice1579 amain1587 extremea1591 damnably1598 fellc1600 tyrannically1602 exquisitely1603 damnedly1607 preciously1607 damnablea1616 impensively1620 excellingly1621 main1632 fearful1634 vengeancelya1640 upsy1650 impensely1657 twadding1657 vastly1664 hideous1667 mainly1670 consumed1707 consumedly1707 outrageously1749 damned1757 nation1771 shockingly1777 deuced1779 darn1789 darned1807 felly1807 varsal1814 awful1816 awfy1816 frightfully1816 deucedly1819 dogged1819 awfully1820 gallowsa1823 shocking1831 tremendously1832 everlasting1833 terribly1833 fearfully1835 ripping1838 poison1840 thundering1853 frighteninglyc1854 raring1854 hell's own1863 goldarned1866 goddamned1870 doggone1871 acutely1872 whooping1874 stupidly1878 everlastingly1879 hideously1882 densely1883 storming1883 good and1885 thunderingly1885 crazy1887 tremendous1887 madly1888 goldarn1892 howling1895 murderously1916 rasted1919 goddam1921 bitchingly1923 Christly1923 bitching1929 falling-down1930 lousy1932 appallingly1937 stratospherically1941 Christ almighty1945 effing1945 focking1956 dagnab1961 drop-dead1980 hella1987 totes2006 1930 M. Anderson et al. All Quiet on Western Front (transcribed from film) We're going to get falling-down drunk to night. 1951 J. Jones From Here to Eternity xlvi. 693 He had been falling-down slobbering drunk for two days, but it was not enough, and he would have preferred more. 1971 Washington Post 18 June b14/7 By some magic it gets funny again, hysterically, eye-wateringly, falling-down funny. 1989 Assoc. Press (Nexis) 29 Dec. He was red-eyed and falling-down tired. 2001 W. Ferguson Happiness (2003) xlii. 231 You two will want to catch up on old times, swap some stories. Maybe get falling-down drunk and maudlin. Compounds † falling-down collar n. Obsolete a wide collar that lies flat, fashionable in the 16th and 17th centuries; = falling collar n. at falling adj. Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1758 Whitehall Evening-post 24–27 June [He] was in Second Mourning, with a black Velvet falling-down Collar to his Coat. 1794 E. M. James tr. Comtesse de Genlis Select. Ann. of Virtue 242 This Prince [sc. Henry II]..introduced the use of ruffs, and bands, or falling down collars. 1844 W. H. Carpenter Pict. Notices: Mem. Sir Anthony Van Dyck 103 He wears a falling down collar edged with lace, tied in front with a cord. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.adv.c1384
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