单词 | fright |
释义 | frightn. 1. ΚΠ c825 Vesp. Hymns xii. 13 Ðylæs fiondes ðes efestgan facne fyrhtu stille awecce. c1000 Ags. Ps. liv. 20 [lv. 19] Ne him Godes fyrhtu georne ondrædað. b. In Middle English and in modern use: Sudden fear, violent terror, alarm. An instance of this. to take fright. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > fear > apprehension > [noun] > fright caused by alarm frighta1325 affrayc1380 fray1398 gloppeninga1400 alarma1460 scare1548 affright1566 affrightment1593 aghastment1594 surprise1609 gastc1686 gliff1732 stew1806 stink1819 feeze1825 startlement1927 a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 1234 His moder wurð neg dead for frigt. c1325 Body & Soul in Map's Poems (Camd.) 338 Ne thorte us have friȝt ne fer, that God ne wolde his blisse us sent. c1425 Seven Sag. (P.) 948 Tho the knave hadde a fryȝt. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 177/2 Freyhte, or feer..timor, pavor, terror. 1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. xxix. xii. 369 The Mazices..thus beaten down in sundry slaughters, in a foule fright, brake their arraies. a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) ii. iii. 225 Lest by his clamour..The Towne might fall in fright . View more context for this quotation 1654 E. Nicholas Papers (1892) II. 96 The greate advance made into this countrye had noe other ende then by giving a generall fright. 1770 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) II. xxxviii. 85 The minister took fright. 1791 A. Radcliffe Romance of Forest I. iv. 126 In my fright..I forgot to take the round about way. 1837 W. Irving Adventures Capt. Bonneville III. 221 The antelopes, nearly exhausted with fatigue and fright..made no effort to break through the ring of the hunters. 1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess vi. 141 An echo started up..and died of fright in far apartments. 2. †Anything that causes terror (obsolete). Hence (colloquial) a person or thing of a shocking, grotesque, or ridiculous appearance. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > quality of terribleness > [noun] > one who or that which terrifies terrora1500 terrifier1586 terrible1606 terrification1622 fright1634 gastering1642 Dracula1938 the mind > attention and judgement > lack of beauty > [noun] > grotesqueness > person mammet1461 scarecrow1590 antic1597 fright1751 figure1774 jigger1825 guy1836 flibbertigibbet1878 worricow1894 1634 W. Tirwhyt tr. J. L. G. de Balzac Lett. 8 Hide my selfe here with your good favour..than to beare a shew there with their frights and soure lookes. 1661 R. Boyle Some Consider. Style of Script. (1675) 27 As a skilful fowler..catches..some with frights, as black-birds with a sparrow-hawk or a low-bell. 1751 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1861) III. 50 A friend..who is working a fright of a carpet! 1809 M. R. Mitford in A. G. L'Estrange Life M. R. Mitford (1870) I. 76 The present race of young men are such a set of frights. 1832 E. Ind. Sketch Bk. II. 174 To be sure..the women are sad frights, very yellow, and mostly so lean. 1864 W. H. Ainsworth John Law II. iii. iii. 63 ‘You mustn't marry that ridiculous old fright,’ she whispered. 3. ? Misused for fret n.2 ΚΠ 1668 in R. Boyle Hist. Air (1692) xv. 85 The Storm had seven Paroxysms or Exacerbations, which the Seamen call Frights of Weather. Draft additions 1993 fright wig n. originally U.S. a theatrical wig used to express (mock) fright, usually by means of a string pulled to make the hair stand on end; hence, any wig with the hair arranged standing up or sticking out. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > wig > types of > other Rogerian1597 Gregorian1598 Chedreux1678 vallancy1684 spencer17.. nightcap wig1709 Adonis1734 pigeon wing1753 grizzle1755 tête1756 bag-wig1760 negligent1762 jasey1789 bushel-wig1794 Brutus1798 scalp1802 Brown Georgea1845 sheitel1890 fright wig1904 katsura1908 neck-roll1920 the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > practice of wearing artificial hair > [noun] > artificial hair > other specific types of Chedreux1678 caxy1729 cauliflower wig1753 negligée1753 caxona1761 fright wig1904 weave1958 society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > theatrical equipment or accessories > [noun] > costume > wig > types of fright wig1904 1904 Leslie's Monthly Mag. Aug. 424/1 It lifts your scalp like a fright wig. 1939 ‘N. West’ Day of the Locust in Novels & Other Writings (1997) xxi. 348 Go on..you fugitive from the Western Costume Company, you..you louse in a fright-wig, you. 1960 B. Keaton My Wonderful World of Slapstick i. 12 I got the idea of dressing him up like myself as a stage Irishman with a fright wig, slugger whiskers, fancy vest, and over-size pants. 1989 Independent 9 Oct. 19/8 With a gloating relish that neither her baby-doll fright wig nor her impenetrable pancake make-up could conceal, she set about tormenting her immemorial screen rival. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022). frightv.ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > fear > be afraid or fear [verb (intransitive)] adreadeOE affrightOE frightc1000 agastc1300 offrightc1300 scarec1400 resoignc1500 fray1535 feara1593 fley1768 c1000 in J. Stevenson Rituale Ecclesiæ Dunelmensis (1840) 102 Ðu doest ða fyrhta, facis eam tremere. a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 3978 Ðhog ðe asse spac, frigtede he nogt. a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 1861 Oc michil he frigtede for-ði Boðen symeon and leui. 2. a. transitive. To affect with fright; to scare, terrify. Now rare exc. poetic and dialect; in ordinary language its place has been taken by frighten. See also frit adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > frighten [verb (transitive)] gastOE eisieOE fearc1000 scarec1175 fray14.. doubtc1315 fright1423 flightc1571 to curdle the blood1579 effray1588 hare1656 pavefy1656 frighten1666 sob1671 haze1677 funk1789 gliff1823 frecken1847 to scare a person silly1942 c900 tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (1890) iv. iii. 268 Gif..þunorrade eorðan and lyfte brægden and fyrhten. 1423 Kingis Quair clxii I ne wist quhat to done, so was I fricht. 1580 Sir P. Sidney tr. Psalmes David ix. xiii With terrors greate, O Lord, doe thou them fright. 1628 T. Hobbes tr. Thucydides Peloponnesian War (1822) 23 The likelihood of the war wherewith the Corcyreans frighting you go about [etc.]. 1700 W. Penn in Mem. Hist. Soc. Pennsylvania (1870) IX. 9 Those that fired upon the Indians, and frighted them. 1773 O. Goldsmith She stoops to Conquer i. 3 Frighting the maids, and worrying the kittens. 1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam lxxx. 112 No lower life that earth's embrace May breed with him, can fright my faith. View more context for this quotation 1869 C. Gibbon Robin Gray iv ‘Ye needna be frichted, mither, he's just got himsel hurt’. 1960 Oxf. Mail 4 Aug. 1/5 When I heard he was dead I got frit. b. With complement: To scare away, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > causing physical symptoms > cause physical symptoms [verb (transitive)] > frighten away feezec890 shuncha1225 aschewelea1250 fearc1420 scarec1450 affray1487 fray1526 fright1599 lowbell1642 shy1845 1599 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet iv. iv. 38 Heele fright you vp yfaith. View more context for this quotation a1637 B. Jonson Sad Shepherd i. v. 80 in Wks. (1640) III Except Loves fires the vertue have To fright the frost out of the grave. View more context for this quotation a1642 J. Suckling Acct. Relig. by Reason Ep. 99 in Fragmenta Aurea (1646) I send you..that Discourse..which frighted the Lady into a cold sweat. 1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan iv. xlvi. 373 Would fright them from Obeying the Laws. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xi. 121 Of a Sword the flame Wide waving, all approach farr off to fright . View more context for this quotation 1678 N. Wanley Wonders Little World v. i. §97. 468/1 Charles the fifth..frighted Solyman the Turk from Vienna. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 127 The God..who frights away, With his Lath Sword, the Thiefs and Birds of Prey. View more context for this quotation 1697 S. Patrick Comm. Exod. (ix. 27) 160 A Man distracted and frighted out of his Wits. 1705 G. Stanhope Paraphr. (1709) IV. 558 A Refractory People might be frighted into good Manners. 1707 I. Watts Hymns & Spiritual Songs ii. 139 Not Jordan's Stream, nor Death's cold Flood, Should fright us from the Shore. 1781 S. Johnson Thomson in Pref. Wks. Eng. Poets IX. 20 He accompanied the players by audible recitation, till a friendly hint frighted him to silence. 1820 J. Keats Lamia i, in Lamia & Other Poems 3 Before King Oberon's bright diadem..Frighted away the Dryads and the Fauns From rushes green. Derivatives ˈfrighting n. and adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > [noun] > action of frightening affrayinga1450 affright1573 scaring1573 affrightment1608 frighting1619 aghasting1663 the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > quality of terribleness > [adjective] eislichc888 eyesfulOE awfulc1175 smarta1200 ferlya1225 sternc1275 grisea1300 uglya1300 dreadfula1325 fell?c1335 stout1338 perilousc1380 terriblec1400 ghastfulc1449 timorous1455 epouventable1477 bedreadc1485 dreadablec1490 dreadc1540 buggisha1555 dreaded1556 monster-like1561 dire1567 scareful1567 terrifying1577 scary1582 direful1583 affrighting1592 dismal1594 affrightful1603 diral1606 tirable1607 frighting1619 scaring1641 affrighteninga1651 formidolous1656 terrific1667 terrifical1677 atrocious1733 terrorful1789 orful1845 lurid1850 terrorsome1890 turble1893 timorsome1894 like the wrath of God1936 1619 J. Denison Heauenly Banquet 184 Frightings and terrors. 1648 T. Gage Eng.-Amer. xxi. 188 How did I sometimes look upon Deaths frighting visage? 1650 W. Brough Sacred Princ. 16 Their trivial and frighting argument. 1663 J. Spencer Disc. Prodigies (1665) 29 God hath now, in a great measure, left frighting of men to Heaven by visible terrors. 1674 J. Bryan Harvest-home iii. 19 Frighting fearfull terrors. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c825v.c900 |
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