| 单词 | i don't know what |
| 释义 | > as lemmasI don't know (also †I know not, †I wot not) what (a) I don't know (also †I know not, †I wot not) what. [Compare classical Latin nesciō quid, Middle French, French je ne sais quoi.] Quot. OE shows Old English nāthwæt (pronoun) ‘something’, literally ‘I don't know what’ (with the first element cf. Forms 2aα. (b) at wit v.1). ΘΚΠ the mind > language > naming > anonymity or lack of a name > [noun] > thing or person whose name is forgotten or unknown swilk and swilkc1175 thinga1325 what-call-ye-him1473 who knows what?1548 I don't know (also I know not, I wot not) what1568 God (also (the) Lord) knows (also wot) what1569 washical1575 what-d'ye-call-'em1593 so-and-so1596 whiblin1604 so-fortha1616 jiggumboba1625 know-not-whata1642 thingum1652 thingum-thangum1684 what's-his-name1697 something or other1706 thingummy1737 thingamabob1751 something1764 what's-her-name1816 conundrum1817 thingamerry1819 thingamajig1824 somebody1825 what's-its-name1839 whangdoodle1852 thingummytite1865 dingus1866 what-not1876 whatsita1882 gilguy1883 gadget1886 dingbat1894 doohickey1914 oojah1917 oojah capivvy1917 oojiboo1918 doodad1920 tiddlypush1923 whosis1923 thingy1927 doodah1928 doofer1937 hootenanny1940 whatchamacallit1942 gizmo1943 frammis1948 whosit1948 whifflow1961 oobyjiver1963 whatsisface1967 oojamaflip1970 what's-her-face1980 OE Riddle 54 5 Hyse..[h]rand under gyrdels hyre stondendre stiþes nathwæt.] 1568 A. Scott Poems (1896) 815 Thay luve no man effeminat, And haldis thame, bot I wat not quhat, That can nocht be withowt thame. 1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 154 When he was about to speake (I wot not what) as touching painting-craft. 1840 W. M. Thackeray Barber Cox in Comic Almanack 33 Shouting out, ‘Aha!’ and ‘Sapprrrristie!’ and I don't know what. 1856 H. D. Thoreau Let. 21 May in Corr. (1958) 424 So we shall save some of our money..and lose—I do not know what. a1950 R. H. Williams Let. in W. C. Williams Yes, Mrs. Williams (1982) 28 They received cargos from Europe of rice, flour and I don't know what. 2011 Viz Oct. 21/1 These days there's all these wraps, subs, clubs, paninis, ciabattas and I don't know what. I don't know what a. As the object of know, forming a modifying phrase with the sense ‘some unknown or undefined ——’, ‘some —— or other’, as in I don't know what, heaven knows what, etc.; cf. Phrases 2a. ΚΠ 1535 R. Copland tr. Complaynt of them that be to soone Maryed sig. Biii Her gosseps and her neyghboures to Semblynge lyke a prosessyon God knewe what desstruccyon Drynkynge my wyne all at theyr ease All thynge goeth to perdycyon. a1635 in Publ. Catholic Rec. Soc. (1906) 3 43 There was present on horse-backe, I knowe not what poetical preacher, named Pourcase. 1670 G. Havers tr. G. Leti Il Cardinalismo di Santa Chiesa ii. iii. 205 There has been already some disgusts.., about I know not what reducement of the Light-horse. 1700 P. Motteux et al. tr. M. de Cervantes Hist. Don Quixote I. iii. vi. 201 A Wallet at her Back, wherein they say she carried a piece of a Looking-Glass, half a Comb, a broken Pot with Paint; and I don't know what other Trinkum Trankums to prink her self up. 1883 Cent. Mag. Jan. 409/1 We may see kings, queens, dukes, counts, sheikhs, beys, sultans, khedives, pashas, rajahs, and I don't know what potentates besides. 1883 Sat. Rev. 13 Oct. 467/1 Made up of plasters and match-boxes and medicine-bottles and heaven knows what other oddments. 1971 J. Fleming Grim Death iv. 47 One of those floaters who wandered round the markets looking for heaven-knows what scraps of unrecognized treasure. 1999 C. Brookmyre One Fine Day in Middle of Night (2000) 338 They'd been in the thick of it, sharing God-knows-what experiences together, from foreplay to gunplay. < as lemmas |
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