| 单词 | in fettle |
| 释义 | > as lemmas(to be) in (good, high, etc.) fettle 1. Condition, state, trim; in (to be) in (good, high, etc.) fettle. Also in plural the points, ‘ins and outs’ (of anything); but this may belong to fettle n.1 ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > state or condition > [noun] > good or bad condition or order point?c1225 plighta1375 waya1400 ply1443 ploy1477 abyss1548 order1569 kilter1582 trim1628 tilter1674 fettle?1748 kidney1763 fix1816 ?1748 ‘T. Bobbin’ View Lancs. Dial. (ed. 2) (Gloss.) Fettle, dress, case or condition. 1768 A. Ross Fortunate Shepherdess 23 Her tongue for fear tint fettle in her cheek. 1804 R. Anderson et al. Ballads in Cumberland Dial. 90 We were young, and beath i' fettle. 1829 H. D. Best Personal & Lit. Mem. 365 A critic, who knows what the north-countryman calls the fettles of the business, may suspect an equivocation. 1850 H. L. Lear Tales Kirkbeck 2nd Ser. 270 I'm in terrible poor fettle with the toothache. 1857 E. Waugh Sketches Lancs. Life (ed. 2) A Shetland pony in good fettle. 1860 O. W. Holmes Professor at Breakfast-table xii. 394 The young man John is..‘in fust-rate fettle’. 1890 W. Beatty-Kingston in Fortn. Rev. May 729 It would..be surprising were they not in fine fettle. < as lemmas |
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