† blue-stockingv.
Obsolete.
transitive (reflexive). To don blue stockings, attend a bluestocking assembly (see bluestocking adj. 2).Apparently an isolated use.
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1784 H. Walpole Corr. (1833) IV. 381 [To Hannah More] When will you blue-stocking yourself, and come amongst us?
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online September 2019).
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v.1784- there are more fish in the sea
- there are more maids than malkin
- there are no atheists in foxholes
- there are no birds in last year's nest
- there are no flies on
- there are plenty more fish in the sea
- there but for the grace of god go i
- there east
- there etc no way
- there etc no way that
- there gains him no glee
- there games him no glee
- there glads him no glee
- there goes but a pair of shears between them
- there he goes
- there is
- there is a difference between staring and stark mad
- there is a difference between staring and stark stark blind
- there is a hen on
- there is a life after
- there is a remedy for everything but death
- there is a time and a place
- there is a time and a place for everything
- there is a time and place for everything
- there is a time to speak and a time to be silent