单词 | bally |
释义 | ballyadj.adv. slang (now somewhat dated). A. adj. As a vague intensive (usually as a euphemism for bloody): confounded, dashed, blasted. Cf. absoballylutely at absolutely int. 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > state of being accursed > [adjective] > as everyday imprecation stinking?c1225 misbegetc1325 banned1340 cursefula1382 wariablea1382 cursedc1386 biccheda1400 maledighta1400 vilea1400 accursedc1400 whoresona1450 remauldit?1473 execrable1490 infamous1490 unbicheda1500 jolly1534 bloodyc1540 mangy?1548 pagan1550 damned1563 misbegotten1571 putid1580 desperate1581 excremental1591 inexecrable?1594 sacred1594 putrid1628 sad1664 blasted1682 plagued1728 damnation1757 infernal1764 damn1775 pesky1775 deuced1782 shocking1798 blessed1806 darned1815 dinged1821 anointed1823 goldarn1830 darn1835 cussed1837 blamed1840 unholy1842 verdomde1850 bleeding1858 ghastly1860 goddam1861 blankety1872 blame1876 bastard1877 God-awful1877 dashed1881 sodding1881 bally1885 ungodly1887 blazing1888 dee1889 motherfucking1890 blistering1900 plurry1900 Christly1910 blinking1914 blethering1915 blighted1915 blighting1916 soddish1922 somethinged1922 effing1929 Jesus1929 dagnab1934 bastarding1944 Christless1947 mother-loving1948 mothering1951 pussyclaat1957 mother-grabbing1959 pigging1970 1847 W. M. Thackeray in Fraser's Mag. Jan. 126/2 Ha! What have we here? M. A. Titmarsh's Christmas-Book—Mrs. Perkins's Ball. Dedicated to the Mulligan of Ballymulligan. Ballymulligan! Ballyfiddlestick!] 1885 Sporting Times 11 Apr. 1/4 Too bad, too bad! after getting fourteen days or forty bob, the bally rag don't even mention it. 1887 S. Butler in H. F. Jones Memoir (1919) II. xxvi. 54 No one in those days gave him or herself any bally airs about it. 1898 G. W. Steevens With Kitchener to Khartum 112 I've been in this bally country five years. 1919 C. Orr Glorious Thing v. 56 I..talked gaily about the bally old war. 1922 H. Walpole Cathedral I. vi. 103 All the time behind you and them some force was insisting on places being taken, connections being formed. One was simply a bally pawn..a bally pawn. 1974 G. Chapman et al. Monty Python's Flying Circus (1989) II. xlii. 278 Bovril How was it? Squadron Leader Top hole. Bally Jerry pranged his kite right in the how's your father. 2004 D. Lodge Author, Author i. 12 ‘Lord above, how many more commas?’ the typist complained. ‘His bally sentences seem to go on for ever’. B. adv. Used for emphasis: confoundedly, extremely, very. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adverb] stronglyeOE felec950 strongeOE highlyOE highOE greatlya1200 stourlya1225 greata1325 dreec1330 deeplya1400 mightya1400 dreichlyc1400 mighty?a1425 sorec1440 mainlyc1450 greatumly1456 madc1487 profoundly1489 stronglya1492 muchwhata1513 shrewlya1529 heapa1547 vengeance?1548 sorely1562 smartlyc1580 mightly1582 mightily1587 violently1601 intensively1604 almightily1612 violent1629 seriously1643 intensely1646 importunately1660 shrewdly1664 gey1686 sadly1738 plenty1775 vitally1787 substantively1795 badly1813 far1814 heavily1819 serious1825 measurably1834 dearly1843 bally1939 majorly1955 sizzlingly1956 majorly1978 fecking1983 1939 G. B. Shaw Geneva iv. 54 The staggering, paralyzing, jolly bally breath-bereaving point..is that the dictators have been summoned. 1945 J.Gunn Let. 1 May in All Our Yesterdays (2004) 133 My mother saw one of our term..and thinks he has gone ‘bally well, by jove, what ho!’ 1994 S. Dawson Forsytes (1996) i. vi. 66 We've atomized ourselves bally near to extinction. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < |
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