| 单词 | play the giddy ox |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto play the giddy ox a. Of persons, their attributes and actions: Mentally intoxicated, ‘elated to thoughtlessness’ (Johnson); incapable of or indisposed to serious thought or steady attention; easily carried away by excitement; ‘light-headed, frivolous, flighty, inconstant. to play the giddy goat: see goat n. and adj. Phrases 2; to play the giddy ox: to behave foolishly or frivolously; to play the fool. Chiefly transferred from sense 2; but some of the uses may descend directly from sense 1. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > inattention > mental wandering > light-mindedness > [adjective] lightlyeOE lightOE lightsomea1425 flying1509 light-minded?1529 tickle or light of the sear?1530 giddya1547 light-headed1549 gidded1563 giddish1566 fling-brained1570 tickle-headed1583 toyish1584 shallow1594 leger1598 corky1601 barmy1602 airy1609 unfirma1616 unballast1622 cork-brained1630 unballasted1644 kickshawa1655 unserious1655 unstudious1663 flirtishc1665 caper-witteda1670 shatter-headedc1686 corky-brained1699 flea-lugged1724 halokit1724 shatter-brained1727 scattered-brained1747 shatter-witted1775 flippant1791 butterfly-brained1796 scatter-brained1804 gossamer1806 shandy-pated1806 shattery1820 barmy-brained1823 papilionaceous1832 flirtatious1834 flirty1840 Micawberish1859 scatterheaded1867 flibberty-gibberty1879 thistledown1897 shatter-pated1901 trivial-minded1905 scattery1924 fizgig1928 ditzy1979 the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > absurdity, incongruity > act absurdly [verb (intransitive)] buffoonize1611 buffoona1672 anticize1871 to play the giddy ox1892 a1547 Earl of Surrey tr. Virgil Certain Bks. Aenæis (1557) ii. sig. Aiiv So diuerse ranne the giddy peoples minde. 1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. ii. f. 81 Such as do alway sauor of a certaine giddy imagination. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) iii. i. 86 [They] Doe pelt so fast at one anothers Pate, That many haue their giddy braynes knockt out. View more context for this quotation 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §698 It may be Gnats and Flies haue their Imagination more mutable and giddy. a1631 J. Donne Poems (1650) 118 Giddie fantastique Poets. 1643 J. Milton Doctr. Divorce 48 Many they shall reclaime from obscure and giddy sects. 1681 J. Dryden Absalom & Achitophel 7 Govern'd by the Moon, the giddy Jews Tread the same track when she the Prime renews: And once in twenty Years..By natural Instinct they change their Lord. 1713 R. Steele in Guardian 17 Mar. 2/1 The giddy part of the Sex will have it she is in Love. 1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield I. xix. 213 She said twenty giddy things that looked like joy. 1779 F. Burney Let. 12 Oct. in Early Jrnls. & Lett. (1994) III. 375 A mere playing, giddy, romping Child. 1822 W. Hazlitt Table-talk (1869) 2nd Ser. xv. 301 Art..still allures our giddy admiration. a1839 W. M. Praed Poems (1864) II. 26 And giddy girls of gay fifteen Mimic his manner and his mien. 1845 B. Disraeli Sybil III. v. vii. 92 She..thinks she is gay when she is only giddy. 1892 Ally Sloper's Half-Holiday 19 Mar. 91/2 Fanny Robinson was flighty; she played the giddy ox—I mean, heifer. 1915 W. S. Maugham Of Human Bondage xiii. 47 Don't play the giddy ox. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses i. i. [Telemachus] 7 I don't want to be debagged! Don't you play the giddy ox with me! to play the (giddy, etc.) ox Chiefly in phrases, as to play the (giddy, etc.) ox, †to make (a person) an ox (sometimes with suggestion of cuckoldry) (obsolete). See also dumb ox at dumb adj. 7b.extracted from oxn.< as lemmas |
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