单词 | nouns |
释义 | † nounsint.n. Obsolete. Expressing surprise, astonishment, etc. Also (occasionally) as n.: wounds. Cf. wounds int.Recorded earliest in asseverative phrases, as Cock's, Gog's nouns, etc.: see the first element (see also god n. and int. Phrases 3b).In quot. 1607 with punning allusion to noun n. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > malediction > oaths > [interjection] > religious oaths (referring to God) > God's wounds God's woundsc1460 kocks nownesa1556 nounsa1556 God's bores1578 swounds?1589 zoundsa1593 oons1593 'Snowns1594 wounds1600 od's nounsa1616 Gad's nouns1677 odsoons1694 od zounds1696 zines?1701 swolks1738 zoontersa1763 od's wounds1773 Gadswoons1826 woundikins1836 a1556 N. Udall Ralph Roister Doister (?1566) i. iv. sig. B.iiijv Kocks nownes what meanest thou man. 1591 R. Greene Second Pt. Conny-catching sig. C2v He began to..rap out goggs Nownes, and his pronouns, while at voluntarye he had sworne through the eight parts of speech in the Accidence. 1607 G. Wilkins Miseries Inforst Mariage 111 But nouns, pronouns and participles! where be these rogues here? ?1608 Merry Devil of Edmonton in W. C. Hazlitt Dodsley's Sel. Coll. Old Eng. Plays (1875) X. 225 Nouns! there's fire i' th' tail on't. 1675 T. Duffett Mock-tempest i. i. 7 Nounz, stir about, or I'le beat thy brains out with my Bottle. 1685 N. Tate Cuckolds-Haven Epil. 46 We have shewn an Alderman no Conjurer. 'Nouns, crys Pit-Bully, Who e'er thought there were? 1705 E. Ward Hudibras Redivivus I. iv. 20 Nouns, crys the Doctor, in a Fury, That was the Rogue, I can assure ye. 1715 J. Browne & W. Oldisworth State Tracts II. 145 Nouns! Who'd be Agent to a S—be of S—e? 1723 S. Centlivre Artifice iii. 38 Nouns, an thick be London-Breeding, send me into the Country agen, I say. 1790 R. Tyler Contrast v. i. 69 I can't laugh for the blood and nowns of me. 1822 W. Scott Fortunes of Nigel I. ii. 40 Nouns, man, the Whitehall gateways were planned by the great Holbein. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < int.n.a1556 |
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