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单词 qy
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qy.int.

Forms: 1800s– qy. (with point), 1900s– qy (without point).
Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: query n.2
Etymology: Shortened < query n.2 (as a graphic abbreviation).
Used to introduce a question, and to introduce a word or statement of uncertain accuracy or validity; = query int. Cf. quaere int.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > introducing a question [verb (impersonal)]
quaere?1530
query1653
qu.1657
qy.1819
the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > [noun] > act or instance of
askOE
askingOE
questionc1350
demandc1386
inquestc1400
interrogationc1405
inquisitionc1440
questioninga1450
inquirea1500
manda1500
terogatores1511
interrogatory1533
inquiry1548
interrogator1561
interrogativea1586
quaere1589
intergatory1590
A1591
Q1591
query1610
interrogate1633
starter1673
querical1699
speer1788
qy.1819
Q1902
1819 M. Edgeworth Let. 17 Apr. (1971) 195 We had been presented to the (Qy.) Duchess of Sussex.
1838 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 1 390/1 Qy. Is this pitch the Trinidad asphalte?
1895 E. C. Brewer Dict. Phrase & Fable (rev. ed.) 1032/1 A Welsh rabbit..(Qy. ‘rare-bit’.)
1987 Encounter Dec. 83/1 As Ford Madox Ford put it: he [sc. H. G. Wells] ‘took literary London by storm.’ (Qy: who has done this in our own day?)
2000 A. Einsohn Copyeditor's Handbk. 440 QY: where is table 3?
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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