see-sawv.

Etymology: < see-saw n.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈsee-saw.

1. intransitive.

a. literal. To move up and down, or backwards and forwards; to undergo a see-saw motion; also to play see-saw.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > oscillation > oscillate [verb (intransitive)] > see-saw

see-saw1712

tittera1825

titter-tottera1825

tilter1825

teeter1843

society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > other children's games > [verb (intransitive)] > play see-saw

totter1530

to play (at) see-saw1821

see-saw1860

1712 J. Arbuthnot Lewis Baboon iv. vii. 32 So they went see-sawing up and down, from one End of the Room to the other.

1778 F. Burney Let. 23 Aug. in Early Jrnls. & Lett. (1994) III. 96 ‘Why, ay, true’, cried the Doctor [sc. Johnson], see-sawing very solemnly.

1835 N. P. Willis Pencillings I. xxiii. 161 A decrepid nun was see-sawing backwards and forwards.

1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. xlix. 469 It see-sawed with him a good deal, but he jumped for it safely.

1860 ‘G. Eliot’ Mill on Floss I. i. vi. 79 She was seesawing on the elder bough.

1898 Fraser in Daily News 15 June 5/2 Our way lay east, over a road see~sawing continuously between altitudes of 5,000 and 8,000 feet.

b. figurative.

ΚΠ

1826 J. S. Mill in Westm. Rev. 6 259 To see-saw between these two horrible conditions, with one half of our population always in misery, is a grand item in the present state of the nation.

1835 Countess Granville Let. 7 Sept. (1894) II. 195 He..then has to see-saw between Peel and the Ultras.

1856 T. De Quincey Confessions Eng. Opium-eater (rev. ed.) in Select. Grave & Gay V. 135 Dialogues that loitered painfully, or see-sawed unprofitably.

1894 G. Parker Trail of Sword (1897) xx. 280 It is curious how their fortunes had see-sawed one against the other for twelve years.

2. transitive. To cause to move in a see-saw motion.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > oscillation > oscillate [verb (transitive)] > cause to see-saw

see-saw1753

teeter1874

1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison VI. 285 Your nurse, in your infancy see-sawed you.

1801 in Spirit of Public Jrnls. (1806) IX. 377 He sits cocking his chin, and see-sawing his right arm.

1813 S. T. Coleridge Remorse (ed. 2) ii. i. 25 A poor Ideot Boy..See-saws his Voice in inarticulate Noises.

1832 E. Bulwer-Lytton Eugene Aram I. i. ix. 146 He ponders, he see-saws himself to and fro.

1873 M. E. Braddon Strangers & Pilgrims iii. xiii Dr. Cameron see-sawed the matter in his most delicate way.

1873 R. Broughton Nancy iv Bobby, stop see-sawing that chair, it makes me feel deadly sick.

Derivatives

ˈsee-ˌsawing n. and adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > oscillation > [noun] > see-sawing

see-saw1704

see-sawing1793

teeter1855

the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > oscillation > [adjective] > see-sawing

see-saw1735

see-sawing1793

teeter-totter1933

1793 Laity's Directory 20 The shameful act of see-sawing in their chairs.

1827 T. Carlyle tr. J. P. F. Richter in German Romance III. 246 To mount a plank over a beam, and commence seesawing.

1832 E. Bulwer-Lytton Eugene Aram I. i. ii. 21 A certain lolling, see-sawing method of balancing his body upon his chair.

1876 A. J. Evans Through Bosnia ii. 50 Two Croats..imparted a see-sawing motion to it.

1906 B. von Hutten What became of Pam ii. viii. 166 He seemed..so above all mental see-sawing.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online September 2021).

see-sawint.n.adj.

Brit.

/ˈsiːsɔː/, U.S.

/ˈsiˌsɔ/,

/ˈsiˌsɑ/

Etymology: A reduplicating formation symbolic of alternating movement; the particular form may be suggested by saw v.¹, to which the oldest example refers. Compare sitisot n.

A. int.

Used as part of a rhythmical jingle, apparently sung by sawyers, or by children imitating sawyers at their work. Hence in nursery songs serving as accompaniment to alternating movements in games.

ΘΠ

the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > oscillation > [interjection] > see-saw

see-saw1640

1640 R. Brome Antipodes sig. D3 Let me not see you act now, In your Scholasticke way, you brought to towne wi' yee, With see saw sacke a downe, like a Sawyer.

c1685 MS Douce 357 lf. 124 See saw, sack a day; Monmouth is a pretie Boy.

17.. in Ritson Gammer Gurton's Garland (1783) 48 See Saw, sacaradown, Which is the way to London town?

17.. in Ritson Gammer Gurton's Garland (1783) 51 See saw, Margery Daw Sold her old bed to lay on straw.

18.. in Halliwell Nursery Rhymes (1842) 88 See saw, Margery Daw, Jackey shall have a new master.

B. n.

a. The motion of going up one moment and down the next, or of swaying backwards and forwards. to play (at) see-saw: a sport or child's amusement in which children sit one or more at each end of a board or piece of timber balanced so that the ends move alternately up and down.A wholly different game, a form of cat's-cradle n., is known in some parts of England as see-saw, with reference to the backward and forward movements of the hands.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > oscillation > [noun] > see-sawing

see-saw1704

see-sawing1793

teeter1855

society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > other children's games > [verb (intransitive)] > play see-saw

totter1530

to play (at) see-saw1821

see-saw1860

1704 J. Swift Disc. Mech. Operat. Spirit i, in Tale of Tub 297 Then, as they sit, they are in a perpetual Motion of See-saw.

1712 J. Swift Let. to Mrs. Hill July One who knows your constitution very well, advises you by all means against sitting in the dusk at your window, or on the ground, leaning on your hand, or at see-saw in your chair.

1792 F. Burney Jrnls. & Lett. (1972) I. 123 I thought, by his see-saw, he was going to interrupt the speech.

1806 H. K. White Let. 18 Aug. in Remains (1807) I. 246 The delicious see-saw of a post-chaise.

1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel II. 77 Play at see-saw on the pasture-gate.

1877 R. D. Blackmore Erema III. liv. 237 The butt-ends of the three old streets..were dipped as if playing see-saw in the surf.

b. transferred and figurative.

1711 Ld. Shaftesbury Characteristicks III. Misc. i. iii. 26 The common Amble or Canterbury is not, I am persuaded, more tiresom to a good Rider, than this See-saw of Essay-Writers is to an able Reader.

1748 S. Richardson Clarissa III. xv. 99 To see..what can be done by the amorous See-saw; now humble; now proud; now expecting, or demanding.

1748 S. Richardson Clarissa IV. xlviii. 280 At one time, I hoped to overcome by intimidating her, at another by Love; by the amorous See-saw, as I have called it.

1827 B. Disraeli Vivian Grey III. v. xiii. 260 He had persisted obstinately against a run on the red; then floundered, and got entangled in a see-saw, which alone cost him a thousand.

a1856 W. Hamilton Lect. Metaphysics (1860) IV. xxiv. 18 The ancients called the circular definition also by the name of Diallelon... In probation there is a similar vice which bears the same names. We may, I think, call them by the homely English appellation of the Seesaw.

1860 R. W. Emerson Fate in Conduct of Life (London ed.) 39 If a man has a seesaw in his voice, it will run into his sentences.

a1870 W. Stubbs Lect. European Hist. (1904) i. i. 8 Charles's wars with France are a regular see-saw.

c. Whist. = cross-ruff n. 2.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > [noun] > actions or tactics > trumping or ruffing

ruffing1611

see-saw1746

ruff1813

trump1853

overruff1906

1746 E. Hoyle Whist (ed. 6) 36 See-Saw, is when each Partner trumps a Suit, and they play those Suits to one another to trump.

1876 A. Campbell-Walker Correct Card Gloss. p. xiii See-saw, partners trumping each a suit, and leading to each other for that purpose.

2. A plank arranged for playing see-saw.

ΘΠ

society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > see-saw > [noun]

merry-totter1440

wild mare1600

titter-totter1790

see-saw1824

highty-tighty1825

rantipole1854

teeter1855

joggling-board1883

teeter-totter1959

1824 T. Carlyle tr. Wilhelm Meister xvii[i] A large swing-wheel..other see-saws [etc.].

1844 L. S. Costello Béarn & Pyrenees: Legendary Tour I. x. 177 Swings and see-saws for the exercise of youthful bathers after their dips.

1884 Harper's Mag. Apr. 771/1 The long cemented play-ground below, with a seesaw for the children.

figurative.1855 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes II. xv. 140 I began by siding with Mrs. Grundy and the world, and at the next turn of the seesaw have lighted down on Ethel's side.

3. ? One whose life is passed in monotonous repetition of the same incident.Apparently an isolated use.

1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison III. xviii. 159 Let me alone, Harriet: Now a quarrel; now a reconciliation; I warrant I shall be happier than any of the yawning see~saws in the kingdom. Everlasting summers would be a grievance.

C. adj.

Moving up and down, or backwards and forwards, in the manner of a see-saw. Also figurative.

ΘΠ

the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > oscillation > [adjective] > see-sawing

see-saw1735

see-sawing1793

teeter-totter1933

1735 A. Pope Prol. to Satires in Wks. II. 315 His Wit all see-saw between that and this, Now high, now low, now Master up, now Miss.

1760 R. Lloyd Actor 148 When desperate heroines grieve with tedious moan, And whine their sorrows in a see-saw tone.

1772 W. Mason Heroick Epist. Sir W. Chambers 22 Let D**d H*e, from the remotest North, In see-saw sceptic scruples hint his worth.

1796 E. Darwin Zoonomia II. 389 Some elderly people acquire a see-saw motion of their bodies from one side to the other, as they sit, like the oscillation of a pendulum.

1812 Ld. Byron Waltz To Publisher, Turning round to a d——d see-saw up-and-down sort of tune.

1854 H. Miller My Schools & Schoolmasters (1858) 375 I lived on for years in a sort of uneasy, see-saw condition, without any middle ground between the two extremes, on which I could at once reason and believe.

1878 S. Walpole Hist. Eng. II. 434 They did not tolerate a see-saw Government.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	see-saw
释义	see-sawv. Etymology: < see-saw n.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈsee-saw. 1. intransitive. a. literal. To move up and down, or backwards and forwards; to undergo a see-saw motion; also to play see-saw. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > oscillation > oscillate [verb (intransitive)] > see-saw see-saw1712 tittera1825 titter-tottera1825 tilter1825 teeter1843 society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > other children's games > [verb (intransitive)] > play see-saw totter1530 to play (at) see-saw1821 see-saw1860 1712 J. Arbuthnot Lewis Baboon iv. vii. 32 So they went see-sawing up and down, from one End of the Room to the other. 1778 F. Burney Let. 23 Aug. in Early Jrnls. & Lett. (1994) III. 96 ‘Why, ay, true’, cried the Doctor [sc. Johnson], see-sawing very solemnly. 1835 N. P. Willis Pencillings I. xxiii. 161 A decrepid nun was see-sawing backwards and forwards. 1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. xlix. 469 It see-sawed with him a good deal, but he jumped for it safely. 1860 ‘G. Eliot’ Mill on Floss I. i. vi. 79 She was seesawing on the elder bough. 1898 Fraser in Daily News 15 June 5/2 Our way lay east, over a road see~sawing continuously between altitudes of 5,000 and 8,000 feet. b. figurative. ΚΠ 1826 J. S. Mill in Westm. Rev. 6 259 To see-saw between these two horrible conditions, with one half of our population always in misery, is a grand item in the present state of the nation. 1835 Countess Granville Let. 7 Sept. (1894) II. 195 He..then has to see-saw between Peel and the Ultras. 1856 T. De Quincey Confessions Eng. Opium-eater (rev. ed.) in Select. Grave & Gay V. 135 Dialogues that loitered painfully, or see-sawed unprofitably. 1894 G. Parker Trail of Sword (1897) xx. 280 It is curious how their fortunes had see-sawed one against the other for twelve years. 2. transitive. To cause to move in a see-saw motion. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > oscillation > oscillate [verb (transitive)] > cause to see-saw see-saw1753 teeter1874 1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison VI. 285 Your nurse, in your infancy see-sawed you. 1801 in Spirit of Public Jrnls. (1806) IX. 377 He sits cocking his chin, and see-sawing his right arm. 1813 S. T. Coleridge Remorse (ed. 2) ii. i. 25 A poor Ideot Boy..See-saws his Voice in inarticulate Noises. 1832 E. Bulwer-Lytton Eugene Aram I. i. ix. 146 He ponders, he see-saws himself to and fro. 1873 M. E. Braddon Strangers & Pilgrims iii. xiii Dr. Cameron see-sawed the matter in his most delicate way. 1873 R. Broughton Nancy iv Bobby, stop see-sawing that chair, it makes me feel deadly sick. Derivatives ˈsee-ˌsawing n. and adj. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > oscillation > [noun] > see-sawing see-saw1704 see-sawing1793 teeter1855 the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > oscillation > [adjective] > see-sawing see-saw1735 see-sawing1793 teeter-totter1933 1793 Laity's Directory 20 The shameful act of see-sawing in their chairs. 1827 T. Carlyle tr. J. P. F. Richter in German Romance III. 246 To mount a plank over a beam, and commence seesawing. 1832 E. Bulwer-Lytton Eugene Aram I. i. ii. 21 A certain lolling, see-sawing method of balancing his body upon his chair. 1876 A. J. Evans Through Bosnia ii. 50 Two Croats..imparted a see-sawing motion to it. 1906 B. von Hutten What became of Pam ii. viii. 166 He seemed..so above all mental see-sawing. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online September 2021). see-sawint.n.adj. Brit. /ˈsiːsɔː/, U.S. /ˈsiˌsɔ/, /ˈsiˌsɑ/ Etymology: A reduplicating formation symbolic of alternating movement; the particular form may be suggested by saw v.¹, to which the oldest example refers. Compare sitisot n. A. int. Used as part of a rhythmical jingle, apparently sung by sawyers, or by children imitating sawyers at their work. Hence in nursery songs serving as accompaniment to alternating movements in games. ΘΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > oscillation > [interjection] > see-saw see-saw1640 1640 R. Brome Antipodes sig. D3 Let me not see you act now, In your Scholasticke way, you brought to towne wi' yee, With see saw sacke a downe, like a Sawyer. c1685 MS Douce 357 lf. 124 See saw, sack a day; Monmouth is a pretie Boy. 17.. in Ritson Gammer Gurton's Garland (1783) 48 See Saw, sacaradown, Which is the way to London town? 17.. in Ritson Gammer Gurton's Garland (1783) 51 See saw, Margery Daw Sold her old bed to lay on straw. 18.. in Halliwell Nursery Rhymes (1842) 88 See saw, Margery Daw, Jackey shall have a new master. B. n. 1. a. The motion of going up one moment and down the next, or of swaying backwards and forwards. to play (at) see-saw: a sport or child's amusement in which children sit one or more at each end of a board or piece of timber balanced so that the ends move alternately up and down.A wholly different game, a form of cat's-cradle n., is known in some parts of England as see-saw, with reference to the backward and forward movements of the hands. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > oscillation > [noun] > see-sawing see-saw1704 see-sawing1793 teeter1855 society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > other children's games > [verb (intransitive)] > play see-saw totter1530 to play (at) see-saw1821 see-saw1860 1704 J. Swift Disc. Mech. Operat. Spirit i, in Tale of Tub 297 Then, as they sit, they are in a perpetual Motion of See-saw. 1712 J. Swift Let. to Mrs. Hill July One who knows your constitution very well, advises you by all means against sitting in the dusk at your window, or on the ground, leaning on your hand, or at see-saw in your chair. 1792 F. Burney Jrnls. & Lett. (1972) I. 123 I thought, by his see-saw, he was going to interrupt the speech. 1806 H. K. White Let. 18 Aug. in Remains (1807) I. 246 The delicious see-saw of a post-chaise. 1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel II. 77 Play at see-saw on the pasture-gate. 1877 R. D. Blackmore Erema III. liv. 237 The butt-ends of the three old streets..were dipped as if playing see-saw in the surf. b. transferred and figurative. Π 1711 Ld. Shaftesbury Characteristicks III. Misc. i. iii. 26 The common Amble or Canterbury is not, I am persuaded, more tiresom to a good Rider, than this See-saw of Essay-Writers is to an able Reader. 1748 S. Richardson Clarissa III. xv. 99 To see..what can be done by the amorous See-saw; now humble; now proud; now expecting, or demanding. 1748 S. Richardson Clarissa IV. xlviii. 280 At one time, I hoped to overcome by intimidating her, at another by Love; by the amorous See-saw, as I have called it. 1827 B. Disraeli Vivian Grey III. v. xiii. 260 He had persisted obstinately against a run on the red; then floundered, and got entangled in a see-saw, which alone cost him a thousand. a1856 W. Hamilton Lect. Metaphysics (1860) IV. xxiv. 18 The ancients called the circular definition also by the name of Diallelon... In probation there is a similar vice which bears the same names. We may, I think, call them by the homely English appellation of the Seesaw. 1860 R. W. Emerson Fate in Conduct of Life (London ed.) 39 If a man has a seesaw in his voice, it will run into his sentences. a1870 W. Stubbs Lect. European Hist. (1904) i. i. 8 Charles's wars with France are a regular see-saw. c. Whist. = cross-ruff n. 2. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > [noun] > actions or tactics > trumping or ruffing ruffing1611 see-saw1746 ruff1813 trump1853 overruff1906 1746 E. Hoyle Whist (ed. 6) 36 See-Saw, is when each Partner trumps a Suit, and they play those Suits to one another to trump. 1876 A. Campbell-Walker Correct Card Gloss. p. xiii See-saw, partners trumping each a suit, and leading to each other for that purpose. 2. A plank arranged for playing see-saw. ΘΠ society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > see-saw > [noun] merry-totter1440 wild mare1600 titter-totter1790 see-saw1824 highty-tighty1825 rantipole1854 teeter1855 joggling-board1883 teeter-totter1959 1824 T. Carlyle tr. Wilhelm Meister xvii[i] A large swing-wheel..other see-saws [etc.]. 1844 L. S. Costello Béarn & Pyrenees: Legendary Tour I. x. 177 Swings and see-saws for the exercise of youthful bathers after their dips. 1884 Harper's Mag. Apr. 771/1 The long cemented play-ground below, with a seesaw for the children. figurative.1855 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes II. xv. 140 I began by siding with Mrs. Grundy and the world, and at the next turn of the seesaw have lighted down on Ethel's side. 3. ? One whose life is passed in monotonous repetition of the same incident.Apparently an isolated use. Π 1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison III. xviii. 159 Let me alone, Harriet: Now a quarrel; now a reconciliation; I warrant I shall be happier than any of the yawning see~saws in the kingdom. Everlasting summers would be a grievance. C. adj. Moving up and down, or backwards and forwards, in the manner of a see-saw. Also figurative. ΘΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > oscillation > [adjective] > see-sawing see-saw1735 see-sawing1793 teeter-totter1933 1735 A. Pope Prol. to Satires in Wks. II. 315 His Wit all see-saw between that and this, Now high, now low, now Master up, now Miss. 1760 R. Lloyd Actor 148 When desperate heroines grieve with tedious moan, And whine their sorrows in a see-saw tone. 1772 W. Mason Heroick Epist. Sir W. Chambers 22 Let D*d He, from the remotest North, In see-saw sceptic scruples hint his worth. 1796 E. Darwin Zoonomia II. 389 Some elderly people acquire a see-saw motion of their bodies from one side to the other, as they sit, like the oscillation of a pendulum. 1812 Ld. Byron Waltz To Publisher, Turning round to a d——d see-saw up-and-down sort of tune. 1854 H. Miller My Schools & Schoolmasters (1858) 375 I lived on for years in a sort of uneasy, see-saw condition, without any middle ground between the two extremes, on which I could at once reason and believe. 1878 S. Walpole Hist. Eng. II. 434 They did not tolerate a see-saw Government. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1712int.n.adj.1640
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