单词 | smuggle |
释义 | smugglev.1 1. a. transitive. To convey (goods) clandestinely into (or out of) a country or district, in order to avoid payment of legal duties, or in contravention of some enactment; to bring in, over, etc., in this way. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > illegal or immoral trading > trade in (goods) illegally or immorally [verb (transitive)] > smuggle contraband1615 smugglea1687 run1695 to run the cutter1870 a1687 W. Petty Polit. Arithm. (1691) iv. 84 Two Hundred thousand pounds smuckled by the Merchants. 1688 G. Miege Great French Dict. ii. sig. Qqq3/1 To Smuckle. See to Smuggle. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) To Smuggle Goods, to run them ashore, or bring them in by stealth, without paying the Custom. 1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 36 In order afterwards to smuggle them back again into this country. View more context for this quotation 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. ii. v. 63 Weapons, military stores can be smuggled over (if the English do not seize them). 1837 J. R. McCulloch Statist. Acct. Brit. Empire II. v. ii. 509 The means of preventing its being smuggled or the duty evaded. b. intransitive. To practise smuggling. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > illegal or immoral trading > trade illegally or immorally [verb (intransitive)] > trade in sordid or petty manner > smuggle smuggle1697 contraband1858 1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World xi. 308 The Spaniards can and will Smuggle (as our Sea-men call Trading by stealth) as well as any Nation that I know. 1830 F. Marryat King's Own II. iii. 39 We don't mean to smuggle any more. 1845 J. R. McCulloch Treat. Taxation ii. vi. 249 The temptation to smuggle was diminished. ΚΠ 1688 G. Miege Great French Dict. ii sig. Qqq 3/1 To smuggle the Coal, to make people believe one has no Mony when the Reckoning is to be paid. 3. transferred. a. To get possession of by stealth. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > taking surreptitiously > take surreptitiously [verb (transitive)] forsteala940 stealc950 undernimc1175 to run away with?c1430 embezzle1469 steal?1473 surrept1548 cloyne1549 abstract1555 secrete1749 smuggle1768 to run off1821 snakea1861 sneak1883 snitch1904 palm1941 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > stealthy action, stealth > accomplish clandestinely [verb (transitive)] > gain stealc1426 suborn1541 smuggle1768 snakea1861 1768 T. Gray Inscript. Villa in Polit. Reg. Nov. 345 The pious resolution, To smuggle some few years. c1790 J. Dunstan in W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1827) II. 832 I shall..prove the Excise Office to be the greatest smuggle[r] in the nation, for they smuggled the ground from the public. b. To convey, etc., in a stealthy or clandestine manner. Const. with adverbs and prepositions, as away, in, into, off, out of, through, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > transference > [verb (transitive)] > convey or transport > in a stealthy manner steala1400 convey1526 smuggle1783 slive1821 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > stealthy action, stealth > accomplish clandestinely [verb (transitive)] > convey shovec1374 steala1400 smuggle1783 slive1821 1783 W. Gordon tr. Livy Rom. Hist. (1823) v. ii. 400 Among all that number a single Plebeian could not be smuggled in. 1816 W. Scott Old Mortality x, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. II. 262 She smuggled him out of the garrison through the pantry window. 1853 E. Bulwer-Lytton My Novel IV. xii. xxxi. 219 I have two private bills I want to smuggle through Parliament. 1872 W. Black Strange Adventures Phaeton xiii. 177 On our entrance the document was hastily folded up and smuggled away. c. intransitive. To make off stealthily. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (intransitive)] > go away quietly or stealthily steal1154 to steal one's wayc1385 skew?a1400 astealc1400 fleetc1400 slip?c1450 shrink1530 flinch1563 shift1594 foist1603 shab1699 slope1851 smuggle1865 sneak1896 mope1914 to oil out1945 1865 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia V. xviii. x. 247 These good people are smuggling off... Let them go in peace. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online December 2021). † smugglev.2 Obsolete. transitive. To cuddle, fondle, caress. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > action of caressing > caress [verb (transitive)] freeOE coy1340 daunsel1362 to fawn on, upon1477 daut?a1513 cherish1568 fona1586 minion1598 flatter1599 ingle1599 biscot1653 ningle1659 fond1676 smuggle1679 fondle1686 caress1697 nauntle1828 smudge1844 the mind > emotion > love > embrace > [verb (transitive)] clipc950 freeOE beclipc1000 windc1175 fang?c1200 yokec1275 umgripea1300 to take in (also into, on) one's armsc1300 umbefold14.. collc1320 lapc1350 bracec1375 embracec1386 clapa1400 folda1400 halsea1400 umbeclapa1400 accollc1400 fathomc1400 halchc1400 haspc1400 hoderc1440 plighta1450 plet?a1500 cuddlec1520 complect1523 umbfoldc1540 clasp1549 culla1564 cully1576 huggle1583 embosom1590 wrap1594 collya1600 cling1607 bosom1608 grasp1609 comply1648 huddlea1650 smuggle1679 inarm1713 snuggle1775 cwtch1965 1679 M. Prance True Narr. Popish Plot 36 This pretious Saint..hath been seen to..kiss her many times over, as if it had been part of her Penance to be most filthily smuggled. 1699 G. Farquhar Love & Bottle i. 9 Oh the little Lips!—and 'tis the best natur'd little dear—(Smuggles and kisses it). 1709 Brit. Apollo 9–14 Dec. He was smugling Blouze. 1719 T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth II. 195 He Smuggled her, and Squeez'd her. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < v.1a1687v.21679 |
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