| 单词 | a little something |
| 释义 | > as lemmasa little something a. With adjective preceding. Also in a little something: some food or drink; a snack; refreshments. Cf. sense A. 1c. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > meal > [noun] > light meal or snacks nuncheonc1260 morsela1382 refection?a1439 mixtumc1490 bever1500 banquet1509 collation1525 snatch1570 beverage1577 a little something1577 anders-meat1598 four-hours1637 watering1637 refreshment1639 snap1642 luncheona1652 crib1652 prandicle1656 munchin1657 baita1661 unch1663 afternooning1678 whet1688 nacket1694 merenda1740 rinfresco1745 bagging?1746 snack1757 coffee1774 second breakfast1775 nummit1777 stay-stomach1800 damper1804 eleven o'clock1805 noonshine1808 by-bit1819 morning1819 four1823 four o'clock1825 lunch1829 stay-bit1833 picnic meal1839 elevens1849 Tommy1864 picnic tea1869 dinnerette1872 merienda1880 elevenses1887 light bite1887 soldier's supper1893 mug-up1902 tray1914 café complet1933 nosha1941 namkeen1942 snax1947 snackette1952 chaat1954 ploughman's lunch1957 munchie1959 playlunch1960 short-eat1962 lite bite1965 munchie1971 ploughman1975 aperitivo2002 the world > existence and causation > existence > [noun] > entity, being, or thing > something somethingc1000 thingOE somewhatc1230 somewhat else, more, over1390 something1577 what1654 something or other1706 sumptin1767 sumthin1822 sumfin1823 summink1875 singular. plural.1642 H. More Ψυχωδια Platonica sig. G5 Bringing hid Noughts into existencie, Or sleeping Somethings into wide day-light.1728 A. Pope Dunciad i. 44 Here she beholds the Chaos dark and deep, Where nameless somethings in their causes sleep.1894 Pall Mall Mag. Dec. 601 Whispering soft Somethings in Italian.1897 Atlantic Monthly 79 139 The title of a group of miniature essays..devoted to airy somethings.1577 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. (1877) ii. vi. i. 163 A little something was allowed in the morning to young children. 1661 J. Glanvill Vanity of Dogmatizing 145 A very slender something in a Fable. 1682 T. Creech tr. Lucretius De natura rerum iii. 75 Then we must add a fourth to this frame, A fourth something, but without a name. 1778 F. Burney Jrnl. 18 June in Early Jrnls. & Lett. (1994) III. 31 An inward something which I cannot account for, prepares me to expect a reverse! 1800 E. Hervey Mourtray Family III. 165 An unaccountable something seemed always to prevent their getting further. 1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) II. vi. 91 Every monastery..had..its special something, to attract the interest of the people. 1864 F. C. Bowen Treat. Logic iv. 64 It is only an indeterminate something. 1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt I. xi. 237 Like the shrill biting talk of a vixenish wife, it..compelled you to ‘take a little something’ by way of dulling your sensibility. 1926 A. A. Milne Winnie-the-Pooh vi. 77 It was..as if somebody inside him were saying, ‘Now then, Pooh, time for a little something.’.. So he sat down and took the top off his jar of honey. 1950 J. Cannan Murder Included vii. 146 I wonder if a little something could be provided to pacify the inner man? 1958 P. G. Wodehouse Cocktail Time xix. 159 Butlers always like to keep their strength up with a little something in the middle of the morning. 1977 P. D. James Death of Expert Witness iv. iii. 192 I cook a little something for everyone in the evenings. < as lemmas |
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