单词 | in a pet |
释义 | > as lemmasin a pet Offence at being or feeling slighted; a fit of peevishness or ill humour from this cause, (now) esp. a childish sulk. Frequently in in a pet. Also to take (the) pet: to take offence, to become bad-tempered or sulky (now rare, perhaps obsolete). ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > peevishness > be or become peevish [verb (intransitive)] to take (the) pet1590 pet1629 tiff1727 girn1837 gummidge1889 the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > ill humour > [noun] > fit of gloominga1400 terret1515 momurdotesc1540 the sullens1580 pirr1581 pet1590 snuff1592 mulligrubs1599 mumps1599 geea1605 mood1609 miff1623 tetch1623 frumps1671 strunt1721 hump1727 tiff1727 tift1751 huff1757 tig1773 tout1787 sulk1792 twita1825 fantigue1825 fuff1834 grumps1844 spell1856 the grumbles1861 grouch1895 snit1939 mardy1968 moody1969 strop1970 sull1972 cream puff1985 mard1998 1590 T. Lodge Rosalynde: Euphues Golden Legacie f. 41v Some while they thought he had taken some word vnkindly, and had taken the pet. c1598 King James VI & I Basilicon Doron (1944) I. 84 Feare not thaire orping nor taking the pett [v.r. pet] als lang as ye reule ueill. 1606 G. Chapman Monsieur D'Oliue ii. i Fled backe as it came and went away in Pett. 1640 Whole Bk. Psalmes: ‘Bay Psalm Bk.’ §10 Jonas took pet at the withering of the gourd. 1654 R. Baillie Lett. & Jrnls. (1842) III. 265 I am not so easily subject to take the pett. 1660 S. Pepys Diary 6 Dec. (1970) I. 311 Which did vex me..and so I took occasion to go up and to bed in a pett. 1706 tr. J. B. Morvan de Bellegarde Refl. upon Ridicule 199 Who takes Pett at things that are lightly said. 1731 A. Ramsay Gentle Shepherd: Sang iii, in Poems (new ed.) II. 222 The dawted Bairn thus takes the pet, Nor eats tho' hunger crave. 1785 C. Dibdin Liberty-Hall ii. iii. 26 She is this instant gone, and in a perfect pet, I can tell you, at my entering the lists as your champion. 1830 W. Scott Jrnl. 23 May (1946) 98 About a year ago I took the pet at my diary, chiefly becaus[e] I thought it made me abominably selfish. 1869 J. C. Atkinson Peacock's Gloss. Dial. Hundred of Lonsdale 62/2 She tuk th' pet an wodn't cum. 1894 R. H. Elliot Gold in Mysore 102 They [sc. tigers] take the pet in a case of failure and go off in disgust. 1944 K. Tynan Let. 26 Jan. (1994) i. 29 In a pet (for it much displeases me to be disturbed as I eat) I brusquely ripped open the envelope. 1994 Amer. Spectator Oct. 37/2 I hear America whining, crybaby to the world. I behold my country in a pet beefing, carping, crabbing, bitching, sniveling. < as lemmas |
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