单词 | let abe |
释义 | > as lemmasto let (also leave, etc.) a-be 1. Scottish, English regional, and Irish English (northern). As infinitive, in phrase to let (also leave, etc.) a-be: to leave off, desist from; to leave alone. Cf. to let be at let v.1 20. ΚΠ 1718 A. Ramsay Christ's-kirk on Green iii. 25 Let abe ye'r Scorning. 1724 A. Ramsay Misc. Wks. 355 Ha'd your Tongue, Mither, and let that abee. 1853 E. C. Gaskell Cranford xiv. 168 You've never let me a-be for asking me for to fix when I would be married. 1863 in R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words (1892) I. 5 Let's away and he' some yell, and let sic things abee man. 1893 S. R. Crockett Stickit Minister xix. 224 Lea' decent folk abee. 1933 ‘L. G. Gibbon’ Cloud Howe ii. 133 He aye was sneering something like that, the coarse brute, why couldn't he let folk a-be? let a-be ΚΠ 1817 W. Scott Rob Roy II. xiii. 321 A wheen kilted loons that dinna ken the name o' a single herb or flower in braid Scots, let abe in the Latin tongue. 1860 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. June 723/2 I wadna rise out of my chair for King George himsell, let abee a Whig minister. 1893 R. L. Stevenson Catriona iii. 32 Your father would be gey an little pleased if we was to break a leg to ye, Miss Drummond, let-a-be drowning of you. < as lemmas |
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