| 单词 | ball play |
| 释义 | > as lemmasball play ball play n. play with a ball or balls.In quots. ?c1225 at sense 2a, c1230: something easy, ‘child's play’. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > easiness > [noun] > that which is easy ball play?c1225 child's gamec1380 boys' play1538 walkover1861 picnic1870 pudding1884 cakewalk1886 pie1886 cinch1888 snipa1890 pushover1891 pinch1897 sitter1898 pipe1902 five-finger exercise1903 duck soup1912 pud1917 breeze1928 kid stuff1929 soda1930 piece of cake1936 doddle1937 snack1941 stroll1942 piece of piss1949 waltz1968 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > [noun] ball play?c1225 ballc1300 goalball1834 baseball1845 the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > that which is unimportant > of little importance or trivial gnatc1000 ball play?c1225 smalla1250 triflec1290 fly1297 child's gamec1380 motec1390 mitec1400 child's playc1405 trufferyc1429 toyc1450 curiosity1474 fly-winga1500 neither mass nor matins1528 boys' play1538 nugament1543 knack?1544 fable1552 nincety-fincety1566 mouse1584 molehill1590 coot1594 scoff1594 nidgery1611 pin matter1611 triviality1611 minuity1612 feathera1616 fillip1621 rattle1622 fiddlesticka1625 apex1625 rush candle1628 punctilio1631 rushlight1635 notchet1637 peppercorn1638 petty John1640 emptiness1646 fool-fangle1647 nonny-no1652 crepundian1655 fly-biting1659 pushpin1660 whinny-whanny1673 whiffle1680 straw1692 two and a plack1692 fiddle1695 trivial1715 barley-strawa1721 nothingism1742 curse1763 nihility1765 minutia1782 bee's knee1797 minutiae1797 niff-naff1808 playwork1824 floccinaucity1829 trivialism1830 chicken feed1834 nonsensical1842 meemaw1862 infinitesimality1867 pinfall1868 fidfad1875 flummadiddle1882 quantité négligeable1885 quotidian1902 pipsqueak1905 hickey1909 piddle1910 cream puff1920 squat1934 administrivia1937 chickenshit1938 cream puff1938 diddly-squat1963 non-issue1965 Tinkertoy1972 ?c1225 [see sense 2a]. c1230 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Corpus Cambr.) (1962) 95 Al þe wa of þis world is ieuenet to helle alre leaste pine, al nis bute bal plohe [MS. C ploȝe]. 1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. clxxjx The persecution of thys yere was but a balle playe in comparison of that. 1765 H. Timberlake Mem. 79 I was not a little pleased likewise with their ball-plays. 1855 H. W. Longfellow Hiawatha xi. 145 Skilled..In the play of quoits and ball-play. 1911 Times 15 Apr. 5/5 Ecclesiastical ball-play..was also practised at Eastertide in the Middle Ages. 2001 Amer. Indian Q. 25 522 An ancient Pasamaquoddy legend..explains the Northern Lights of the Aurora Borealis as the ball play of the Wababanal. < as lemmas |
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