| 单词 | blindman buffet |
| 释义 | > as lemmasblindman('s) buffet (also blind and buffet) a. A blow, stroke; now usually one given with the hand. †plural. Fisticuffs (rare). blindman('s) buffet (also blind and buffet) = blind-man's-buff n. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impact > striking > [noun] > a stroke or blow > specific on a person buffet?c1225 flatc1320 boxc1330 rapc1330 plaguea1382 puncha1450 buffc1475 jowl?1516 beff1768 funk1790 fib1814 cob1828 one1876 biff1889 clump1889 one in the eye1891 conk1898 fourpenny one1936 a sock in the eye1972 kennedy- society > society and the community > dissent > fighting > [noun] > with the fists fisticuffs1600 buffet1675 fist-work1819 fisticuffery1823 fisticuffing1855 knockabout1903 fist-fighting1950 ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 139 Nolde me tellen him alre worlde dusegest þe forseke abuffet for an speres wunde. a1340 R. Rolle Psalter lxviii. 23 I suffire vnrightwisly shame in bofetis & spittyngis. c1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Mark xiv. 65 And summe bigunnen for to bispitte him, and to hide his yȝen, and smyte him with boffatis. a1500 (?c1450) Merlin xxviii. 571 Galashin..yaf hym soche a buffet with his swerde that he fill flatte. 1605 R. Verstegan Restit. Decayed Intelligence ii. 32 A hollander and a frenchman..falling out, went to buffets. 1675 T. Hobbes tr. Homer Odysses viii. 86 How much we do all other men excel At Wrestling, Buffets, Leaping. 1714 A. Pope Chaucer's Wife of Bath in R. Steele Poet. Misc. 26 I..with one Buffet fell'd him on the Floor. 1783 Ainsworth's Thes. Linguæ Latinæ (new ed.) i. at Blind To play a blind and buffet, andabatarum more pugnare. 1805 W. Scott Lay of Last Minstrel iii. x. 71 On his cheek a buffet fell, So fierce, it stretched him on the plain. 1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop i. xiii. 158 A shower of buffets rained down upon his person. 1878 O. W. Holmes John Lothrop Motley: Mem. xviii. 136 The letter..was like a buffet on the cheek. < as lemmas |
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