单词 | southboard |
释义 | † southboardn. Obsolete. rare. A retort, a repartee. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > wit, wittiness > wit with words > [noun] > instance of crank1594 wits, fits, and fancies1595 jerk1598 quirk1600 tongue-squib1628 dictery1632 repartee1637 quip1645 good thing1671 bon mot1735 a play on (also upon) words1761 sally1781 wordplay1794 southboarda1805 mot1813 smartism1830 a1805 A. Carlyle Autobiogr. (1860) vii. 267 Lindsay was a hussar in raillery, who had no mercy... Monteath was more than his match, for he..[gave] him such southboards as silenced him for the whole evening. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.a1805 |
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