| 单词 | in a pucker |
| 释义 | > as lemmasin a pucker 2. colloquial. A state of agitation, excitement, or haste; a fluster, a fuss. Esp. in in a pucker. Now chiefly Irish English and U.S. regional (chiefly New England). ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > excitement > nervous excitement > [noun] fever1340 motiona1398 quotidian?a1439 rufflea1535 commotion1581 fret1582 hurry1600 puddering1603 tumultuousnessa1617 trepidation1625 feverishness1638 boilingc1660 fermentationc1660 tumult1663 ferment1672 stickle1681 fuss1705 whirl1707 flurry1710 sweat1715 fluster1728 pucker1740 flutter1741 flustration1747 flutteration1753 tremor1753 swithera1768 twitteration1775 state1781 stew1806 scrow1808 tumultuating1815 flurrification1822 tew1825 purr1842 pirr1856 tête montée1859 go1866 faff1874 poultry flutter1876 palaver1878 thirl1879 razzle-dazzle1885 nervism1887 flurry-scurry1888 fikiness1889 foment1889 dither1891 swivet1892 flusterment1895 tither1896 overwroughtness1923 mania1925 stumer1932 tizzy1935 two and eight1938 snit1939 tizz1953 tiswas1960 wahala1966 1740 S. Richardson Pamela I. 164 Mrs. Jewkes..sat down by me, and seem'd in a great Pucker. 1775 L. Goddard Jrnl. 25 Sept. in E. M. Bell Hamwood Papers (1930) i. 17 Lady B. Ponsonby came in a pucker about Lord Shannon. 1801 M. Edgeworth Angelina iii, in Moral Tales II. 48 Pe not in a pet or a pucker. 1825 J. Neal Brother Jonathan I. 202 Edith was in tears; Jotham, powerless with amazement;—Miriam, in a ‘plaguy pucker’. 1843 J. S. Robb Streaks Squatter Life 15 If I am delayed, Gales and Seaton will be very angry, and Blair and Rives get in a pucker. 1883 J. Payn Thicker than Water xiii The few things that did not agitate Mrs. Sotheran, or, to use her own homely phrase, ‘put her into a pucker’. 1888 W. D. Howells Annie Kilburn xxix I told William when we first missed her..and he was in such a pucker about her..that [etc.]. 1953 M. Traynor Eng. Dial. Donegal 221/1 Pucker, a hurry; a confused hurry. 2004 in T. P. Dolan Dict. Hiberno-Eng. (ed. 2) 184/2 He is in such a pucker that nothing will please him. < as lemmas |
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