| 单词 | in a roar |
| 释义 | > as lemmasin (also on) a roar c. A boisterous outburst of laughter. in (also on) a roar: in a state of extreme amusement; roaring with laughter (probably in allusion to Shakespeare's use: see quot. 1604 at roar n.2 2). ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > types of laughter > [noun] > loud, coarse, or immoderate laughter > instance or outburst of gawf?a1513 roar1675 horse-laugh1713 guffaw1720 ha ha1806 haw-haw1838 hee-haw1843 yaw-haw1912 1675 C. Cotton Burlesque upon Burlesque 126 This fellow subjugates the Earth In a perpetual roar of mirth, Of fidling, dancing, wenching, drinking. 1740 tr. C. de F. de Mouhy Fortunate Country Maid II. 277 This Conclusion was so diverting as to set the Table in a Roar. 1757 Maxims, Char., & Refl., Crit., Satyrica, & Moral (ed. 2) clxxi. 69 Hark! what a roar of laughter..! He is certainly entertaining his company. 1773 R. Graves Spiritual Quixote III. x. xxix. 176 It was Tugwell who had ‘set the table on a roar’, by getting upon the end of it, and holding forth in imitation of his Master and Mr. Whitfield. 1777 T. Campbell Philos. Surv. S. Ireland xli. 424 His flashes of wit and humour keep the table in a roar. 1803 Pic Nic No. 4. 8 [He] kept the company in a roar of laughter. 1824 M. R. Mitford Our Village I. 219 He was once in danger of being turned out of the gallery for setting all around him in a roar. 1839 A. Mathews Mem. C. Mathews III. iii. 58 His personification of an elderly respectable sort of gentleman, very sea-sick..was ludicrous in the extreme, and set the house ‘on a roar’ at almost every word. 1870 Galaxy July 123/2 Good actors..will set the house on a roar, simply by the infection of their laughter. 1872 T. Allan & G. Allan Tyneside Songs (1891) 416 Where's a' his funny sayin's, that set a' the Geordies in a roar? 1891 R. Kipling Light that Failed xii. 237 A roar of laughter interrupted him. 1908 H. H. Peerless Diary 8 June in Brief Jolly Change (2003) 120 We..listened with considerable amusement to a comical cheap-jack..who kept the people in a continual roar of laughter. 1925 V. Lindsay Coll. Poems i. 59 Yorick is dead... Where are those oddities and capers now That used to ‘set the table on a roar’?. 1953 S. J. Perelman in New Yorker 14 Mar. 31/3 I..had everybody in a roar pretending to swallow a table knife. 1995 T. F. Evans in F. D. Crawford Shaw 32 Even without the felicitous similarity of Marconi and Maccaroni, this must have had the house on a roar. 2000 S. Brett Body on Beach (2001) vi. 43 There was a roar of raucous laughter from the bar. in (also on, upon) a roar 1. Uproar, tumult, disturbance. Chiefly in in (also on, upon) a roar: in tumult or confusion.Later examples could be interpreted as illustrating roar n.1 ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > commotion, disturbance, or disorder > [noun] winOE torpelness?c1225 disturbance1297 workc1325 disturblingc1330 farec1330 frapec1330 disturbing1340 troublingc1340 blunderc1375 unresta1382 hurling1387 perturbationc1400 turbationc1400 rumblec1405 roara1413 rumourc1425 sturblance1435 troublec1435 stroublance1439 hurlc1440 hurly-burlyc1440 ruffling1440 stourc1440 rumblingc1450 sturbancec1450 unquietness?c1450 conturbationc1470 ruption1483 stir1487 wanrufe?a1505 rangat?a1513 business1514 turmoil1526 blommera1529 blunderinga1529 disturbation1529 bruyllie1535 garboil1543 bruslery1546 agitation1547 frayment1549 turmoiling1550 whirl1552 confusion1555 troublesomeness1561 rule1567 rummage1575 rabble1579 tumult1580 hurlement1585 rabblement1590 disturb1595 welter1596 coil1599 hurly1600 hurry1600 commotion1616 remotion1622 obturbation1623 stirrance1623 tumultuation1631 commoving1647 roiling1647 spudder1650 suffle1650 dissettlement1654 perturbancy1654 fermentationa1661 dissettledness1664 ferment1672 roil1690 hurry-scurry1753 vortex1761 rumpus1768 widdle1789 gilravagea1796 potheration1797 moil1824 festerment1833 burly1835 fidge1886 static1923 comess1944 frammis1946 bassa-bassa1956 α. β. 1539 Bible (Great) Acts xvii. f. liiiiv/1 The Iewes..gathered a company, and set all the cytie on a roare.1561 J. Daus tr. H. Bullinger Hundred Serm. vpon Apocalips liv. 366 The Ephesians, which were all on a roare and worse than madde.1563 W. Baldwin et al. Myrrour for Magistrates (new ed.) Blacke Smyth xlix When I perceyved the Commons in a roare.1681 N. Lee Lucius Junius Brutus 48 My thoughts were up in arms All in a roar, like Seamen in a Storm.a1413 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (Pierpont Morgan) (1882) v. l. 45 Why nyl I brynge al Troye vpon a rore [a1425 Corpus Cambr. 61 roore; rhyme pore]? ?a1425 (a1415) Lanterne of Liȝt (Harl.) (1917) 71 (MED) Þise forseide prestis & knyȝtis..boolden hem in synne, þat al þis worlde is sett in rore, in bataile, & in werre. Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 436 Rore, or truble amonge þe puple, tumultus, commotio, disturbium. 1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) xx. 456 For therof ye shall see all fraunce in a rore & trowble. 1526 Bible (Tyndale) Acts xix. 29 The cite was on a roore. a1535 T. More Hist. Richard III in Wks. (1557) 41/1 Thus should all the realme fall on a rore. 1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 292 The people beeyng in a greate rore willed enquierie..to be made who it was. a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) i. ii. 2 By your Art..you haue Put the wild waters in this Rore . View more context for this quotation < as lemmas |
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