| 单词 | heathen greek |
| 释义 | > as lemmasheathen Greek (rarely Hebrew-Greek) 8. Unintelligible speech or language, gibberish. Also heathen Greek (rarely Hebrew-Greek). (Cf. Hebrew n. 2b.) St. Giles's Greek: slang. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > unintelligible language, gibberish > [noun] jargon1340 gibberishc1557 fustiana1593 hibber-gibber1593 rabble?1593 gabbling1599 rantum-scantum1599 ribble-rabble1601 gabble1602 High Dutch1602 Greek1603 baragouin1614 galimatias1653 riddle-me-ree1678 clink-clank1679 Hebrew1705 alieniloquy1727 jabber1735 mumbo-jumbo1738 gibbering1786 rigmarole1809 gibber1832 rigmarolery1833 Babelism1834 jargoning1837 barrikin1851 abracadabra1867 double Dutch1876 jabberwock1902 jabberwocky1908 jibber-jabber1922 mumbo-jumbery1923 mumbo1931 double-talk1938 garbology1944 the mind > language > a language > register > [noun] > slang St. Giles's Greek1785 slum1812 slang1818 slanguage1879 1603 T. Dekker et al. Patient Grissill sig. C Far... Asking for some greeke Poet, to him he falles..but Ile be sworne he knowes not so much as one Character of the tongue. Ric. Why then its greeke to him. 1612 B. Jonson Alchemist ii. v. sig. F Svb. Is Ars sacra..A Heathen language? Ana. Heathen Greeke, I take it. Svb. How? Heathen Greeke? Ana. All's Heathen, but the Hebrew. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) i. ii. 279–84 He spoke Greeke..those that vnderstood him, smil'd at one another, and shooke their heads: but..it was Greeke to me. 1647 A. Cowley Discretion in Mistress ii Joynture, Portion, Gold, Estate..Are Greek no Lovers understand. 1769 J. Wesley Jrnl. 1 July (1827) III. 360 I knew this was heathen Greek to them. 1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue Greek. St. Giles's Greek, the slang lingo, cant, or gibberish. 1827 P. Cunningham Two Years New S. Wales II. xxi. 59 A number of the slang phrases current in St. Giles's Greek. 1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge i. 235 I am a stranger, and this is Greek to me. 1886 F. H. Doyle Reminisc. 239 As unintelligible to the person addressed as if it had been Hebrew-Greek. 1892 Nation (N.Y.) 7 July 13/1 Schubert clothed his melodies in wondrous harmonies, which were ‘Greek’ to his contemporaries. < as lemmas |
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