单词 | on the right side of the blanket |
释义 | > as lemmason the right side of the blanket P2. on the wrong side of the blanket: used to indicate that a child is born of parents who are not lawfully married to each other; illegitimate. Similarly also on the right side of the blanket: used to indicate that a child is born of parents who are lawfully married to each other; legitimate. [Perhaps compare earlier blanket love n.] ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > child > relationship to parent > [adjective] > illegitimate cheves-bornOE misbegetc1325 bastc1330 misbegettenc1330 bastard1376 unlawfula1425 naturalc1425 illegitime1502 base1529 base-begot1534 illegitimate1536 misbegotten1554 bastarded1579 misborn1583 nameless1594 spurious1598 unfathered1600 misgotten1623 misbegot1626 baseborn1645 slip-sprung1665 born in (or under or out of) wedlock1675 side wind1738 love-begotten1761 born on the wrong side of the blanket1771 anonymous1869 sinistral1897 society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > child > relationship to parent > [adjective] > legitimate full-bornlOE born in (or under or out of) wedlockc1275 kindlya1300 mulierc1400 legitimatea1464 mulieryc1475 lawfulc1480 naturala1500 mulierly1506 lawfully1512 native1567 loyal1608 lineala1616 full-begotten1636 (on) the right side of the blanket1842 1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker III. 242 I did'n't come on the wrong side of the blanket, girl. 1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering I. ix. 129 ‘Frank Kennedy,’ he said, ‘was a gentleman, though on the wrong side of the blanket.’ 1842 F. Marryat Percival Keene II. i. 100 The captain marrying and having children on the right side of the blanket as they call it. 1919 D. Ashford Young Visiters (1951) v. 34 An old friend of mine not quite the right side of the blanket as they say. 2017 Musical Times Spring 30 Pergolesi came to father a crop of children on the wrong side of the blanket. < as lemmas |
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