单词 | make-sport |
释义 | † make-sportadj.n. Obsolete. A. adj. (attributive). That provides sport; mocking. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > [adjective] gamelyOE hathfula1250 scornfula1400 hathlya1425 mockisha1513 mockinga1529 mowinga1529 deriding1530 hethingfulc1540 bourding1552 make-sport1582 frumping1587 yarking1593 jerking1596 bobbing1605 derident1609 buffoonizing1611 scoptical?1611 scommatizing1613 derisory1618 ridiculous1622 ludibriousa1643 frumpish1647 twitting1655 derisivea1662 derisorious1664 scoptic1670 ridiculing1684 derisionarya1704 mockful1754 irrisory1846 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis i. 21 Let make sport Bacchus [L. laetitiae Bacchus dator]..be present. 1600 T. Weelkes Madrigals ix. sig. Ci The make sport Cuckow, and the Quaile. 1621 R. Montagu Diatribæ Hist. Tithes 11 No..mad prankes playd by any toyish or make-sport diuels in the vault. B. n. A person who or thing which provides sport for others; a laughing stock. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > fact or condition of being mocked or ridiculed > [noun] > object of ridicule hethinga1340 japing-stickc1380 laughing stock?1518 mocking-stock1526 laughing game1530 jesting-stock1535 mockage1535 derision1539 sporting stocka1556 game1562 May game1569 scoffing-stock1571 playing stock1579 make-play1592 flouting-stock1593 sport1598 bauchle1600 jest1606 butt1607 make-sport1611 mocking1611 mirtha1616 laughing stakea1630 scoff1640 gaud1650 blota1657 make-mirth1656 ridicule1678 flout1708 sturgeon1708 laugh1710 ludibry1722 jestee1760 make-game1762 joke1791 laughee1808 laughing post1810 target1842 jest-word1843 Aunt Sally1859 monument1866 punchline1978 1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. viii. ii. 389/2 To aduenture himselfe among the Danish host, as a base Minstrell and Contemptible make-sport. a1625 J. Fletcher Chances iii. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Bbbv/2 My patience..Must be your make-sport now. 1640 F. Quarles Enchyridion iii. xliv Let not mirth be thy profession, lest thou become a Make-sport. a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Norf. 253 Being made the make-sport in all plays for a coward. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2000; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < adj.n.1582 |
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