† pocas palabrasint.

Forms: 1600s pacus palabros, 1600s paucas pallabris, 1600s paucos palabros, 1600s 1800s pocas palabras, 1800s paucas palabras.

Origin: A borrowing from Spanish. Etymon: Spanish pocas palabras.

Etymology: < Spanish pocas palabras, literally ‘few words’ (first half of the 13th cent.) < pocas , feminine plural of poco (end of the 11th cent.; < classical Latin paucus few (see pauci- comb. form)) + the plural of palabra palabra n.Use of the phrase as an interjection is not recorded in dictionaries of Spanish. The phrase does occur as part of a proverbial expression whose standard form from the mid 15th cent. onwards is Al buen entendedor, pocas palabras ‘To the man of understanding, few words’. The forms in pauc- may reflect influence of or confusion with classical Latin paucus few (see pauci- comb. form).

Obsolete (archaic in later use).

As an exhortation: ‘be quiet’, ‘be of few words’, ‘enough said’. Cf. palabra n.Chiefly in Elizabethan, Jacobean, and Caroline drama.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > inaudibility > be silent [interjection]

silence?c1225

peacec1390

whista1425

softlya1500

softc1500

husht1532

ist1540

st1552

soft and peace1576

pocas palabras1592

isse1598

hist1599

whish1635

whisht1684

quiet1814

fusht1816

pax1843

sh1847

pst1863

ciunas1987

1592 T. Kyd Spanish Trag. iii. sig. I^v What new deuice haue they deuised tro? Pocas Palabras, milde as the Lambe.

1603 T. Dekker 1603: Wonderfull Yeare sig. E4 With this learned Oration the Cobler was tutord: layd his finger on his mouth, and cried paucos palabros: he had sealed her pardon, and therefore bid her not feare.

1611 T. Middleton & T. Dekker Roaring Girle sig. L2 Pacus palabros, I will coniure for you, farewell.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) Induct. i. 5 Host. A paire of stockes you rogue. Beg. Y'are a baggage, the Slies are no Rogues..therefore Paucas pallabris, let the world slide: Sessa.

1638 T. Heywood Wise-woman of Hogsdon iii Wisewo. That's Luce, take her, and keepe your promise. Boyst. Pocas palabras.

1835 R. M. Bird Hawks of Hawk-hollow II. ix. 87 But where's that bottle of brown Sherry I clapped into Tiqueraque's pocket? Paucas palabras! I will have mercy upon thee.

1855 C. Kingsley Westward Ho! (1903) v. 108 ‘You have shown yourself..my dear and beloved master on earth, not second even to my admiral Sir Francis Drake.’ ‘Or the queen, I hope..but pocas palabras.’

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online September 2021).

单词	pocas palabras
释义	† pocas palabrasint. Forms: 1600s pacus palabros, 1600s paucas pallabris, 1600s paucos palabros, 1600s 1800s pocas palabras, 1800s paucas palabras. Origin: A borrowing from Spanish. Etymon: Spanish pocas palabras. Etymology: < Spanish pocas palabras, literally ‘few words’ (first half of the 13th cent.) < pocas , feminine plural of poco (end of the 11th cent.; < classical Latin paucus few (see pauci- comb. form)) + the plural of palabra palabra n.Use of the phrase as an interjection is not recorded in dictionaries of Spanish. The phrase does occur as part of a proverbial expression whose standard form from the mid 15th cent. onwards is Al buen entendedor, pocas palabras ‘To the man of understanding, few words’. The forms in pauc- may reflect influence of or confusion with classical Latin paucus few (see pauci- comb. form). Obsolete (archaic in later use). As an exhortation: ‘be quiet’, ‘be of few words’, ‘enough said’. Cf. palabra n.Chiefly in Elizabethan, Jacobean, and Caroline drama. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > inaudibility > be silent [interjection] silence?c1225 peacec1390 whista1425 softlya1500 softc1500 husht1532 ist1540 st1552 soft and peace1576 pocas palabras1592 isse1598 hist1599 whish1635 whisht1684 quiet1814 fusht1816 pax1843 sh1847 pst1863 ciunas1987 1592 T. Kyd Spanish Trag. iii. sig. I^v What new deuice haue they deuised tro? Pocas Palabras, milde as the Lambe. 1603 T. Dekker 1603: Wonderfull Yeare sig. E4 With this learned Oration the Cobler was tutord: layd his finger on his mouth, and cried paucos palabros: he had sealed her pardon, and therefore bid her not feare. 1611 T. Middleton & T. Dekker Roaring Girle sig. L2 Pacus palabros, I will coniure for you, farewell. a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) Induct. i. 5 Host. A paire of stockes you rogue. Beg. Y'are a baggage, the Slies are no Rogues..therefore Paucas pallabris, let the world slide: Sessa. View more context for this quotation 1638 T. Heywood Wise-woman of Hogsdon iii Wisewo. That's Luce, take her, and keepe your promise. Boyst. Pocas palabras. 1835 R. M. Bird Hawks of Hawk-hollow II. ix. 87 But where's that bottle of brown Sherry I clapped into Tiqueraque's pocket? Paucas palabras! I will have mercy upon thee. 1855 C. Kingsley Westward Ho! (1903) v. 108 ‘You have shown yourself..my dear and beloved master on earth, not second even to my admiral Sir Francis Drake.’ ‘Or the queen, I hope..but pocas palabras.’ This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < int.1592
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