单词 | huddling |
释义 | huddlingn. The action of huddle v., in various senses: esp. a confused or disorderly crowding together. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > [noun] > crowded condition or crowding > disorderly crowded condition > crowding together in disorderly way cluttering1583 huddling1592 pigging1898 the mind > emotion > love > embrace > [noun] > action of embracing clippingc1230 embracingc1386 halsing1387 collinga1425 amplection1474 embracement1485 culling1490 bracingc1540 clasping1562 embrace1599 embrasure1609 hugging1616 bosoming1624 amplexation1634 embrassade1830 huddling1869 lapping- 1592 W. Lambarde Eirenarcha (rev. ed.) i. ix. 44 By the vntoward huddeling of things together, which were at strife the one with the other of them. 1638 Bp. J. Wilkins Discov. New World (1707) ii. 12 What a huddling and confusion must there be, if there were two Places of Gravity. 1841 G. Peacock Observ. Statutes Univ. Cambr. 73 The term huddling not unhappily expressed the indecent accumulation of the..exercises which the candidates..were anciently required to perform. 1869 J. C. Atkinson Peacock's Gloss. Dial. Hundred of Lonsdale Huddlin(g), an embracing, a cuddling. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online June 2019). huddlingadj. That huddles: in various senses of the verb. Drant's use is perhaps founded on the literal sense assigned to Latin satira of ‘hotch-potch, medley’. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > rapidity or speed of action or operation > [adjective] > acting with haste > in disorder huddling1566 helter-skelter1785 spuffling1893 the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > [adjective] > confusing or disordering huddling1566 confusive1611 muddling1806 1566 T. Drant tr. Horace Medicinable Morall sig. aiiiiv Next hudlyng Horace, braue in Satyres grace. 1583 G. Babington Very Fruitfull Expos. Commaundem. iii. 134 It shoulde bee an offence verie fearefull if..Judges, Justices, &c. shoulde minister othes..in such hudling, posting, and vnreuerent manner, as that a man can scarce tel what he saith. 1637 J. Milton Comus 17 Thyrsis? whose artfull strains have oft delayd The huddling brook to heare his madrigale. 1816 W. Scott Antiquary II. ii. 36 The lake discharged itself into the huddling and tumultuous brook. 1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus Poems lxiii. 28 On a sudden yell'd in huddling agitation every tongue. Derivatives ˈhuddlingly adv. in confused haste. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > rapidity or speed of action or operation > [adverb] > hastily or hurriedly > disorderly huddlea1555 pell-mellc1586 helter-skelter1593 tumultuously1597 huddlingly1615 1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 42 The property of heate, is to confound and make a medley of all things, shuffling in one thing hudlingly vpon another. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online June 2020). < |
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