单词 | ossing comes to bossing |
释义 | > as lemmasossing comes to bossing 2. The action of offering. Only recorded in proverb ossing comes to bossing [compare bussing n.1] : offering comes to kissing. ΚΠ c1450 MS Douce 52 in Festschrift zum XII. Neuphilologentage (1906) 55 (MED) Ossyng comys to bossyng. c1450 in Bull. John Rylands Libr. (1930) 14 104 (MED) Ossynge comes to bossinge; Vulgus opinatur quod postmodum verificatur; Que predixerunt plures operata fuerunt. 1670 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Prov. 52 Ossing comes to bossing. Chesh...Ossing, i.e. offering or aiming to do. The meaning is the same, with Courting and woing brings dallying and doing. < as lemmas |
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