单词 | hunts-up |
释义 | hunt's-upn. Originally the hunt is up, name of an old song and its tune, sung or played to awaken huntsmen in the morning, and also used as a dance. Hence allusively: a. A song sung or tune played to rouse any one; an early morning song. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > vocal music > types of song > [noun] > early morning or dawn song the hunt is up1537 aubade1678 alba1821 1537 in J. Gairdner Lett. & Papers Reign Henry VIII (1890) (modernized text) XII. i. 206 In formation against John Hogon, who, going about the country with a ‘crowde’ or a fiddle..sang a song with these words, ‘The hunt is up’, etc. c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 52 Thai dancit al cristyn mennis dance, the northt of scotland, huntis vp, the comount entray [etc.]. c1560 A. Scott Poems (S.T.S.) v. 13 With ‘Hunts vp’, every morning plaid. 1574 B. Rich Right Exelent Dialogue Mercury & Eng. Souldier sig. Iij v Unlesse you some times arise to geve your parramours the hunte is up under the windowes. 1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet iii. v. 34 Hunting thee hence with Huntsvp to the day. View more context for this quotation a1640 J. Fletcher & P. Massinger False One iv. ii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Rr4v/1 They came to play you, and your Love a Huntsup. 1654 J. Playford Breefe Introd. Skill Musick 20 The Pythagoreans Huntsup or morning Musick, which wakened and roused their dull spirits. 1888 J. R. Lowell To Lady playing Cithern The horns of Oberon Blow their faint Hunt's-up from the good-time gone. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > commotion, disturbance, or disorder > [noun] > instance of viretotec1386 moving?a1439 reela1450 stir1487 songa1500 pirrie1536 hurly-burly1548 make-a-do1575 confusions1599 the hunt is upa1625 ruffle1642 fuss1701 fraction1721 fizza1734 dust1753 noration1773 steeriea1776 splorea1791 rook1808 piece of work1810 curfuffle1813 squall1813 rookerya1820 stushie1824 shindy1829 shine1832 hurroosh1836 fustle1839 upsetting1847 shinty1848 ructions1862 vex1862 houp-la1870 set-out1875 hoodoo1876 tingle-tangle1880 shemozzle1885 take-on1893 dust-up1897 hoo-ha1931 tra-la-la1933 gefuffle1943 tzimmes1945 kerfuffle1946 a1625 J. Fletcher Monsieur Thomas (1639) iii. i. sig. G3v My spightfull Dame, Ile pipe ye such a hunsup Shall make ye daunce a tipvaes. a1625 J. Fletcher Womans Prize iii. iii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Ooooo3v/1 I would..in her hearing Begin her such a huntes-up. 1664 C. Cotton Scarronides 12 I'll play these Rake-hells such a Hunts-up. 1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Hunsup, a clamour, a turbulent outcry. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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