| 单词 | as merry as a cricket |
| 释义 | > as lemmasas merry as a cricket In similative proverbs, esp. as merry as a cricket, as lively as a cricket. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > merriment > [adjective] blitheOE merryOE golikc1175 lustya1225 playfulc1225 jollyc1305 merrya1350 jocund?c1380 galliardc1386 in (also on) a (merry, etc.) pinc1395 mirthfula1400 baudec1400 gayc1400 jovy1426 jocantc1440 crank1499 envoisiesa1500 as merry as a cricket1509 pleasant1530 frolic?1548 jolious1575 gleeful1586 buxom1590 gleesome1590 festival1592 laughter-loving1592 disposed1593 jucund1596 heartsomec1600 jovial1607 jovialist1610 laughsome1612 jocundary1618 gaysome1633 chirpinga1637 jovialissime1652 airy1654 festivous1654 hilarous1659 spleneticala1661 cocket1671 cranny1673 high1695 vogie1715 raffing?1719 festal1724 as merry (or lively) as a grig1728 hearty1755 tittuping1772 festive1774 fun-loving1776 mirthsome1787 Falstaffian1809 cranky1811 laughful1825 as lively as a cricket1832 hurrah1835 hilarious1838 Bacchic1865 laughterful1874 griggish1879 banzai1929 slap-you-on-the-back1932 1509 tr. A. de la Sale Fyftene Ioyes of Maryage (de Worde) (new ed.) v. sig. E.vv She clappeth to the doores and the wykket And is as mery as it were a crykket. 1593 G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation 158 As pleasant as a cricket. 1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 ii. v. 90 Prince. Shall we be merrie? Po. As merry as Crickets my lad. View more context for this quotation 1685 C. Cotton tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. II. xii. 405 Sadness predominates in me, and by and by I am as merry as a Cricket. 1720 N. Amhurst Epist. Sir J. Blount 11 Make me merry as a Cricket. 1777 J. Webb Let. 4 Oct. in Corr. & Jrnls. S. B. Webb (1893) I. 322 Little Sally is as merry as a cricket. 1815 ‘J. Mathers’ Hist. Mr. John Decastro & Brother Bat IV. ix. 366 I slept sound, ate and drank heartily, grew as merry as a cricket and as fat as a porker. 1832 Amer. Turf Reg. Apr. 403 Next morning he looked as lively as a cricket. So much for your good Virginia blood. 1873 J. G. Holland Arthur Bonnicastle xvi. 253 Mullens had become as cheerful and lively as a cricket. 1917 C. Morley Parnassus on Wheels (1919) iv. 48 He was as genial as a cricket on the hearth. 1960 Woman's Illustr. 16 July 36 My darling daughter awoke, lively as a cricket, just three hours after we'd gone to bed. 1969 H. E. Bates Vanished World 61 Joe was as merry as a boozy cricket. 2001 J. Monninger Barn in New Eng. 125 He was in good spirits and lively as a cricket. < as lemmas |
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