单词 | provoker |
释义 | provokern. A person who or thing which provokes (in various senses). ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > [noun] > challenge to > one who challenges provoker1439 the mind > emotion > anger > irritation > [noun] > action of irritating > cause of irritation > one who or that which irritates fly?c1225 terrer1382 prickc1384 taryerc1440 stub1531 provokera1542 a mote in the eye1546 annoying1566 nettler1611 gadfly1622 flea-biter1629 exasperator1632 badgerer?1791 irritator1855 needler1874 nagger1881 holy terror1883 knob1920 jerkface1942 needle artist1982 d-bag1984 knob-end1989 hater1996 the mind > will > motivation > [noun] > incitement or instigation > one who incites or instigates prickera1382 stirrerc1384 enticerc1386 exciter1387 risera1398 solicitor1412 erterc1440 prompter1440 stirrer?1533 motionerc1535 author1546 onsetter1549 stinger1552 setter-on1560 incentor1570 incensora1575 mover1578 whetter1579 out-hounder1596 hounder1597 egger on1598 inciter1598 instigator1598 urger1598 motive1600 fomenter1607 inflamer1609 fetcher in?1611 provokera1616 putter-ona1616 monitor1616 spurrer1632 outputter1639 poddera1640 commoter1646 impulsor1653 shaker and mover1874 agent provocateur1888 impeller1889 sooler1935 spark plug1941 1439 in R. R. Sharpe Cal. Let.-bks. London (1911) K. 230 (MED) Many diverse persones also ben..provocours of the same synnys in displesance of almyghti God. ?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1876) VI. 435 (MED) A noble yonge man..toke the batelle for the kynge, and did sle his provoker [a1387 J. Trevisa tr. hym..þat woldes nedes fiȝte; L. provocatorem]. a1542 T. Wyatt Coll. Poems (1969) 111 My provokars..That withowt cawse to hurt me do not cesse. a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) ii. iii. 24 Drinke, Sir, is a great prouoker of three things. View more context for this quotation a1656 Bp. J. Hall Shaking of Olive-tree (1660) ii. 162 Fear..is a just provoker of our tears. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 47. ¶11 Men who are such Provokers of Mirth in Conversation, that it is impossible for a Club or Merry-meeting to subsist without them. 1741 S. Richardson Pamela III. xxxiv. 338 The Provoker, who never says a tolerable thing that is not ill-natur'd, that being her Talent. 1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe II. vii. 121 She was my temptress, the foul provoker, the more foul rewarder, of the deed. a1860 J. A. Alexander Gospel Jesus Christ (1861) xxx. 401 The foolhardiest provoker of temptation. 1909 Daily Chron. 24 July 4/4 He had many provokers, in the persons of those who by spoken or printed word advocate or justify the commission of such crimes as his. 1969 Commerce (Texas) Jrnl. 18 Dec. 1/1 It's no fun being a provoker if the provokee won't play. 2001 Daily Tel. 27 Nov. 26/4 I need hardly add that drink, taken as young Britons now take it, is a powerful disinhibitor and provoker of quarrels. DerivativesΘΚΠ the mind > will > motivation > [noun] > incitement or instigation > one who incites or instigates > female mistressa1387 authrix?a1475 fautress1605 instigatrix1611 provokeress1611 stimulatrix1611 motrix1642 fomentress1646 promptress1793 stimulatress1846 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Concitatrice, a concitatrix; incitresse, prouokeresse. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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