单词 | beaten-up |
释义 | beaten-upadj. 1. Of an egg, liquid ingredients, etc.: stirred or whisked vigorously. ΚΠ 1746 T. Short Medicina Britannica 111 Others advise a beaten-up Poultise of Sage, Salt, and Vinegar. 1866 Hours at Home Mar. 402/2 We made a beaten-up egg do the part of milk in the tea. 1876 Frank Leslie's Lady's Mag. July 74/2 Mix the beaten-up yolks of four eggs with three-quarters of a pint of cream. 1913 New Eng. Mag. Apr. 99/1 Add a layer of beaten up mixture of eggs, cream, etc. 1986 Greensburg (Indiana) Daily News 20 Mar. 8/2 Add beaten up cream cheese to mixture. 2010 Belfast Tel. (Nexis) 24 July 30 The way to cook a puff ball, apparently, is to dip it in beaten-up eggs, cover with breadcrumbs and fry in butter. 2. Of a person or part of the body: hit or struck repeatedly with heavy blows; (visibly) injured or assaulted. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > [adjective] hurtc1420 misfaringa1500 bounced1519 baned1568 aggrieved1583 marred1611 hurted1643 lesed1677 banged up1886 beaten-up1886 crocked1906 bummed1907 the world > movement > impact > striking > beating or repeated striking > [adjective] > beaten > specifically of a person rib-roasted1703 beaten-up1886 bethumped- 1886 Centralia (Illinois) Sentinel 3 June In it lay a badly beaten up man with several gashes on his head. 1915 East & West Sept. 174/3 [He had] a beaten-up face with a long noble dark beard. 1937 Washington Post 10 Jan. x4/6 Clay discs which..get cracked up worse than a beaten-up pug [i.e. pugilist]. 1994 Observer (Nexis) 28 Aug. 21 Erin Pizzey started the first refuge for beaten-up wives. 2006 K. Quinn Wife in Fast Lane (2007) 300 The photos looked nothing like this beaten-up child in front of her. Who had attacked her? 3. Esp. of a motor vehicle: worn out from long use or lack of care; in a state of disrepair; dilapidated. Cf. beat-up adj. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [adjective] > worn out perusedc1475 withered1488 laboured1535 outworn1597 worn-out1612 effete1662 frazzled1872 jacked-up1874 crocky1906 bummed1907 rim-racked1916 shot1933 beaten-up1941 beat-up1946 clapped1946 1941 Prospector (Univ. of Texas at El Paso) 11 Jan. 4/2 His beaten up old car. 1948 N.Y. Times 4 Apr. x2/4 For all its exotic title, the Del Rio was a beaten-up chili con carne joint. 1974 P. Cave Mama (new ed.) ii. 10 He..could take a beaten-up old engine and retune it until it could fly. 1993 Arena May 152 Navy blazer, pink and blue striped shirt, paint-spattered Levi's, beaten-up alligator shoes. 2008 R. Beard Becoming Drusilla (2009) x. 229 We're picked up by a sixty-year-old sheep shearer in a beaten-up Rover saloon. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2019). < adj.1746 |
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