单词 | loads |
释义 | > as lemmasloads 6. loads (also a load): a great number or quantity (esp. of something desirable or nonsensical), ‘lots’, ‘heaps’. colloquial.With the earlier quots. cf. cart-load n. b. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > (a) great quantity or amount felec825 muchc1230 good wone1297 plentyc1300 bushelc1374 sight1390 mickle-whata1393 forcea1400 manynessa1400 multitudea1400 packc1400 a good dealc1430 greata1450 sackful1484 power1489 horseloadc1500 mile1508 lump1523 a deal?1532 peckc1535 heapa1547 mass1566 mass1569 gallon1575 armful1579 cart-load1587 mickle1599 bushelful1600–12 a load1609 wreck1612 parisha1616 herd1618 fair share1650 heapa1661 muchness1674 reams1681 hantle1693 mort1694 doll?1719 lift1755 acre1759 beaucoup1760 ton1770 boxload1795 boatload1807 lot1811 dollop1819 swag1819 faggald1824 screed1826 Niagara1828 wad1828 lashings1829 butt1831 slew1839 ocean1840 any amount (of)1848 rake1851 slather1857 horde1860 torrent1864 sheaf1865 oodlesa1867 dead load1869 scad1869 stack1870 jorum1872 a heap sight1874 firlot1883 oodlings1886 chunka1889 whips1888 God's quantity1895 streetful1901 bag1917 fid1920 fleetful1923 mob1927 bucketload1930 pisspot1944 shitload1954 megaton1957 mob-o-ton1975 gazillion1978 buttload1988 shit ton1991 1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida v. i. 19 Loades a grauell in the back, lethergies, could palsies. 1655 in E. Nicholas Nicholas Papers (1892) II. 205 There is a loade of newes. 1852 A. H. Clough Corr. 15 Nov. (1957) II. 329 Sunday—Loads of talk with Emerson all morning. 1860 J. R. Edkins Chinese Scenes (1863) 73 I was very much pleased to get all the home letters on Monday last—This mail I had loads. 1943 C. H. Ward-Jackson It's a Piece of Cake 41 Load of guff, a lot of humbug or nonsense. 1964 Punch 19 Aug. 267/1 And what a load of crap that was. 1965 J. Porter Dover Three x. 123 Her mother had habitually threatened to fetch a policeman when she was naughty and young Eleanor had always thought this was a load of old cod. 1967 Jazz Monthly Dec. 12 Playing a load of rubbish, while sounding quite competent to the casual listener. 1968 Melody Maker 5 Oct. 6/4 Geno Washington says Grapefruit's recent attack on the Maryland Club, Glasgow, was ‘a load of cobblers’. They are one of the best audiences in Britain, says Geno. 1974 A. Morice Killing with Kindness iv. 38 No man is an island... That's what Mike used to say. Mind you, I always thought it was a load of rubbish. < as lemmas |
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