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单词 a pretty deal
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a pretty deal
a. Considerable, sizeable. a pretty many, †a pretty deal (obsolete): a good many, a good deal. Cf. pretty adv. 1, fair adj. 5.Cf. a pretty penny at penny n. Phrases 1c.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective] > considerable in amount or degree
goodeOE
fairOE
goodlyc1275
largea1375
no littlea1413
substantial1413
unleast?1440
prettya1475
reasonablea1500
substantious1545
substantive1575
sensible1581
pretty and ——1596
goody1597
greatish1611
considerable1651
sonsy1721
respectable1736
smart1750
quite a little ——1763
gey1796
smartish1799
canny1805
serious1810
right smart1825
dunnamuch1831
snug1833
tidy1839
bonnyish1855
largish1872
a nice little ——1891
significant1898
healthy1901
beaucoup1917
the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > (a) great quantity or amount > (a) considerable amount
a pretty deala1475
a good sup1601
might1834
right smart1842
mittful1918
a1475 Dis. Hawk (Harl. 2340) f. 35, in Middle Eng. Dict. at Prati(e For A hawke þat may not caste, gyfe hyr halowynsicatre þe quantite of A praty castyng.
a1475 in J. O. Halliwell Early Eng. Misc. (1855) 88 Caste in your colours that schalbe rede afore a prety whyle, and..let hem boyle togedyris.
1589 Voy. W. Towrson in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations i. 106 Their bowes be short, and of a prettie strength.
1656 P. Heylyn Surv. Estate France 8 Swine also they have in prety number.
1680 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. xii. 208 With a pretty strength press the middle of one end of your Work.
1761 G. James Descr. S. Carolina 63 There are a pretty many Indians among the Kays, about the Cape of Florida.
1790 J. Beekman Let. 4 Dec. in Beekman Mercantile Papers (1956) III. 1213 He..was obliged to take Bonds of People who were possessed of pretty Property, assuring him that it was absolutely out of their power to perform their Promises.
1852 W. M. Thackeray Henry Esmond III. i. 5 The transfer of his commission, which brought a pretty sum into his pocket.
1894 ‘A. Hope’ Prisoner of Zenda i. 9 Prince Rudolf..was adroitly smuggled off by the Ruritanian ambassador, who had found him a pretty handful.
1932 New Eng. Q. 5 300 Partridge had a ‘pretty deal of discourse’ with ‘our hearty friend, Oglethorpe’.
1990 C. R. Johnson Middle Passage (1991) v. 102 Most nations will pay a pretty whack to possess a creature such as this.
2005 Financial Times (Nexis) 6 Aug. (Outdoors section) 5 I'd bet a pretty sum that there are more cute china animals and quaint loo signs for sale per head of population than anywhere in England.
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