单词 | or so |
释义 | > as lemmasor so 33. or so. extracted from soadv.conj. a. Or something of that kind; or the like. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > similarity > [phrase] > or the like or or whatever or so1598 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost ii. i. 211 Ber. Is she wedded or no? Boy. To her will sir, or so . View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Hamlet (1623) v. ii. 119 Girdle, Hangers or so [1604 and so]. 1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. i. 5 He..therefore bore it not about, Unless on Holy-dayes, or so. 1707 E. Ward Wooden World Dissected 44 Sometimes he pores upon a Pack of Cards, or so. 1794 A. Radcliffe Myst. of Udolpho III. vi. 153 I used to think nothing on earth could fluster them, unless, indeed, it was a ghost, or so. a1824 Ld. Byron Don Juan Ded. in Wks. (1833) XV. 102 And then you overstrain yourself, or so. 1842 Ld. Tennyson Day-dream in Poems (new ed.) II. 157 My joints are something stiff or so. b. Or about that amount or number; or thereabout. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > approximate quantity or amount > approximately (an amount) [phrase] plus minus1611 or soa1616 a matter of1645 there or (and) thereaboutsa1696 the matter of1829 somewhere about1846 in the neighbourhood of1847 in the region of1865 of the order of1903 give or take1958 not unadjacent to1966 a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) ii. i. 47 For an eternall moment, or so . View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) iii. ii. 53 Some two thousand strong, or so . View more context for this quotation 1814 W. Scott Diary 17 Aug. in J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Scott (1837) III. vi. 207 A King's ship about eighteen guns or so. 1861 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. III. ii. 35 He returned in an hour or so. 1885 Manch. Examiner 10 July 5/3 A Sunday or so ago. < as lemmas |
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