单词 | blow! |
释义 | > as lemmasblow! 29. Used informally in imprecations: To curse, ‘confound’, ‘hang’. (The past participle is blowed.) Also with the implication of ignoring or disregarding; blow!: used absol. as an exclamation of anger or vexation; blow me tight! (cf. sense 22). ΘΚΠ the mind > language > malediction > oaths > [verb (transitive)] > oaths other than religious or obscene confoundc1330 founda1382 hanga1400 whip1609 rat1691 fire1730 repique1760 curse1761 blow1781 blister1840 sugar1886 1781 G. Parker View Society & Manners I. 48 Blow me up (says he) if I have had a fellow with such rum toggys cross my company these many a day. 1819 T. Moore Tom Crib's Memorial to Congress 46 Says Bill, ‘there's nothing like a Bull: And blow me tight.’ 1821 P. Egan Life in London iii. 225 Blow me tight if ever I saw such a thing in my life before. 1827 J. Wight More Mornings Bow St. 55 Blow me if I do! 1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 2nd Ser. 184 The said Thomas Sludberry repeated the aforesaid expression, ‘You be blowed’. 1840 F. Marryat Olla Podrida III. 20 If I do, blow me! 1859 C. Dickens Tale of Two Cities ii. i. 36 One blowed thing and another. 1865 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend II. iv. xv. 287 Blowed if I shouldn't have left out lakes. 1871 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. May 551/2 Oh, blow it, governor. 1881 Daily Tel. 28 Jan. ‘Isn't it rather risky?’ I asked. ‘Blow risks,’ he answered. 1882 J. A. Lees & W. J. Clutterbuck Three in Norway xxiv. 207 Retributive justice be blowed! 1922 F. Hamilton P. J.: Secret Service Boy ii. 70 I'm absolutely blowed if I know what to do. 1922 F. Hamilton P. J.: Secret Service Boy ii. 84 Oh, blow! And I go back to school in ten days. 1933 P. MacDonald Myst. Dead Police i. 6 ‘Blow me tight!’ said Sergeant Guilfoil. For things were certainly happening in Farnley. 1957 I. Cross God Boy (1958) xv. 124 Then blow me if Dr Hutchinson..didn't come padding round the post office corner. 1963 Listener 28 Mar. 540/1 It is no longer proper to use as our second national motto in education ‘Blow you, Jack, our top five per cent. are absolutely splendid’. < as lemmas |
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