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单词 mouse-foot
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mouse-footn.

Forms: see mouse n. and foot n. and int.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: mouse n., foot n. and int.
Etymology: < mouse n. + foot n. and int. With sense 1 compare (by) God's foot int. at god n. and int. Phrases 3b(a), 'Sfoot int. With sense 2 compare mouse-ear n., mouse-pea n.
Obsolete.
1. by the mouse-foot: used as a mild oath.
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the mind > language > malediction > oaths > [interjection] > oaths other than religious or obscene
loOE
spi?c1225
how mischance——?c1330
with mischance!c1330
by my hoodc1374
by my sheath1532
by the mouse-foot1550
what the (also a) goodyear1570
bread and salt1575
by Jove1575
in (good) truly1576
by these hilts1598
by the Lord Harry1693
by the pody cody1693
by jingo!1694
splutter1707
by jing!1786
I snore1790
declare1811
by the hokey1825
shiver my timbers1834
by the (great) horn spoon1842
upon my Sam1879
for goodness' sake1885
yerra1892
for the love of Mike1896
by the hokey fiddle1922
knickers1971
1550 R. Crowley One & Thyrtye Epigrammes sig. Bvi By the crosse of the mouse fote.
1565 King Daryus sig. Bi By the mouse foote I charge you to appere.
?1577 Misogonus in R. W. Bond Early Plays from Ital. (1911) 232 Bith mouse foote do so Mr.
1605 London Prodigall ii. ii I'll come and visit you; by the mouse-foot I will.
1789 F. G. Waldron King in Country i. 8 I hope that's well spoken; for, by the mouse-foot, some give him hard words.
2. A plant (not identified) resembling or suggestive of a mouse's foot.
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1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 504 Plants..receiued names from this litle beast, as..Mouse-foot, and such like.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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