单词 | palabra |
释义 | palabran. Now poetic and rare. A word. Also: talk, esp. of an unnecessary, profuse, or idle nature; occasionally figurative. Cf. pocas palabras int. and palaver n. 2b.In quot. 1600: = pocas palabras int. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > [noun] > that which is or can be spoken speechc897 saw9.. speech971 wordOE quideOE wordsOE wordOE thingOE rouna1225 mouthc1225 queatha1250 breathc1300 reasonc1300 speakingsa1325 swarec1325 saying1340 voicec1350 lorea1375 sermonc1385 carpc1400 gear1415 utterancec1454 parol1474 ditty1483 say1571 said1578 dictumc1586 palabra1600 breathing1606 bringinga1616 elocution?1637 rumblea1680 elocutive1821 vocability1841 deliverance1845 deliverment1850 deliverancy1853 verbalization1858 voicing1888 sayable1937 1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing iii. v. 15 Comparisons are odorous, palabras, neighbour Verges. View more context for this quotation 1821 W. Scott Kenilworth I. xi. 281 An' ye mend not your manners, and mind your business, leaving off such idle palabras. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. v. vi. 329 To conquer or die is no theatrical palabra, in these circumstances; but a practical truth and necessity. 1875 Littell's Living Age 30 Jan. 285 They said that he [sc. Rubens] had no credentials; that his warrant was all by word of mouth, and that he paid diplomatists with the sorry coin of palabras. 1894 Atlantic Monthly Jan. 75 To-day, closing my eyes, and listening to the soft palabra of the little brook, I could have believed the season to be June. 1947 W. Stevens Coll. Poems (1954) 312 They had known that there was not even a common speech, Palabra of a common man who did not exist. 1995 J. Quinn O'o'a'a Bird 68 Endless talks on talks, palabra Of reflections and replies To what winds howl and rainstorms jabber. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1600 |
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