| 单词 | peak and pine |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspeak and pine The action of languishing, pining, or wasting away. Only in peak and pine (cf. peak v.1 3). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > [noun] > reduced vitality depression1803 collapsing1855 peak and pine1868 devitalization1871 the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > [noun] > action of becoming dejected moping1638 sinking1653 desponding1818 peak and pine1868 1868 R. Browning Ring & Bk. II. v. 141 The Babe's face, premature with peak and pine, Sank into wrinkled ruinous old age. 1887 F. W. L. Adams Poet. Wks. 95 And I held here By inactive malady's peak and pine. to peak and pine 3. intransitive. To flag or fail in health and spirits; to languish, waste away; to become sickly or emaciated. In later use only in to peak and pine (sometimes apparently echoing Shakespeare: see quot. a1616).In quot. 1580 probably with admixture of sense 2. In quot. 1789 transitive with away: to lose (time) in languishing. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > be in ill health [verb (intransitive)] sicka1150 langernc1440 aila1500 peak1580 languisha1616 suffer1800 underfunction1941 the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > be or become dejected [verb (intransitive)] heavyOE fallOE droopena1225 lourc1290 droopc1330 to abate one's countenance (also cheer)a1350 dullc1374 fainta1375 languora1375 languisha1382 afflicta1393 gloppen?a1400 weary1434 appalc1450 to have one's heart in one's boots (also shoes, heels, hose, etc.)c1450 peak1580 dumpc1585 mopea1592 sink1603 bate1607 deject1644 despond1655 alamort?1705 sadden1718 dismal1780 munge1790 mug1828 to get one's tail down1853 to have (also get) the pip1881 shadow1888 to have (one's) ass in a sling1960 1580 T. Tusser Fiue Hundred Pointes Good Husbandrie (new ed.) f. 64v Poore sillie hen, long wanting cock to guide, Soone droopes and shortly then, beginnes to peake aside. a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) i. iii. 22 Wearie Seu'nights, nine times nine, Shall he dwindle, peake, and pine. View more context for this quotation a1652 R. Brome Eng. Moor i. i. 1 in Five New Playes (1659) What! suffer you to pine, and peak away In your unnatural melancholy fits. 1709 Brit. Apollo 1–6 July This is no Pin-buttock'd Wench, That Peaks as if she'd took a Drench. 1789 C. Smith Ethelinde V. ix. 195 After pining and peaking away twelve or fourteen years of your best looking days. 1830 J. Galt Lawrie Todd I. i. ii. 13 Croining and dwining, peaking and pining, at the fire-side. 1881 S. Evans Evans's Leicestershire Words (new ed.) Peak, to waste and dwindle in flesh. 1898 E. N. Westcott David Harum xvii. 149 She peaked an' pined, an' died when Billy P. was about fifteen or so. 1922 Times 1 Apr. 14/5 One little boy who had not grown for three years and had peaked and pined, suddenly began to put on weight and look happy. 1940 Times 24 Feb. 2/5 Presently one of the bullocks began to peak and pine; it grew more and more emaciated, ‘physicians were in vain,’ and it died. 1995 Opera News (Nexis) June 14 The drama component came blazing to life in 1992..but then quickly dwindled, peaked and pined to cynicism and going through the motions. < as lemmas |
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