单词 | sunup |
释义 | sunupn. The time in the morning when the sun appears or full daylight arrives; sunrise. Often in from sunup to sundown. Also: the region in which the sun rises; the east.In modern English less common than the standard sunrise in all regions; most commonly and widely used in North America and South Africa. N.E.D. (1913) characterized the word as found in American regional (Midland), Caribbean, and formerly in South African use. ΘΚΠ the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > [noun] > sunrise or sunset sunrising1370 sunseta1393 suna1400 sunrisec1400 sunrist?a1450 sunup1572 sunsetting1575 the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > dawn > [noun] aristc825 dawingc900 dayeOE day-rimOE day-redOE mornOE lightOE lightingOE dawning1297 day-rowa1300 grekinga1300 uprista1300 dayninga1325 uprisingc1330 sun arisingc1350 springc1380 springingc1380 day-springa1382 morrowingc1384 dayingc1400 daylighta1425 upspring1471 aurora1483 sky1515 orienta1522 breaking of the day1523 daybreak1530 day-peep1530 morrow dayc1530 peep of the morning1530 prick of the day?1533 morning1535 day-breaking1565 creek1567 sunup1572 breach of the day1579 break of day or morn1584 peep of day1587 uprise1594 dawna1616 day-dawn1616 peep of dawn1751 strike of day1790 skreigh1802 sunbreak1822 day-daw1823 screech1829 dayclean1835 sun dawn1835 first light1838 morning-red1843 piccaninny sun1846 piccaninny daylightc1860 gloaming1873 glooming1877 sparrow-fart1886 crack1887 sun-spring1900 piccaninny dawn1936 1572 J. Bridges tr. R. Gwalther Hundred, Threescore & Fiftene Homelyes vppon Actes Apostles xx. 737 He..beginneth a newe sermon which he continueth vntill morning, and then by sunne vp, taketh his iourney. 1680 Lex Londinensis 211 Upon Saturday Sun up to wash off his Net, hale up and go home, and not to return to his labour again till Monday morning day-light. 1712 T. Banister Let. 12 Nov. in Connecticut Hist. Soc. Coll. (1924) XXI. 377 Wee Set out by or before Sun up, for Wyndham. 1818 Champion & Sunday Rev. 20 Sept. 599/1 Mechanics work from sun up to sun down, which, in the summer, is a severity of oppressive heat totally unknown in England. 1899 G. H. Russell Under Sjambok x. 105 It is a Boer custom to call and drink coffee just after sun-up. 1913 E. C. Litsey Maid of Kentucky Hills xxi. 318 This mawn'n' at feed'n' time, 'long 'bout sunup, I s'pose. 1949 Caribbean Q. 1 iii. 45 Your face turned to sun-up. 1972 B. C. Brundage Rain of Darts x. 208 The slaughter of victims in this ceremony went on without intermission for four consecutive days from sunup to sundown. 2016 Star (S. Afr.) (Nexis) 16 Aug. (E1 ed.) 3 It is almost impossible to sleep beyond sunup; birdsong is to the bush what police sirens are to urban Gauteng. Compounds attributive with the sense ‘facing or situated towards the sunrise; easterly, eastern’; chiefly in sunup side. ΚΠ 1884 Sunday Oregonian (Portland, Oregon) 14 Dec. Charley lay sun up-side. 1893 Rev. of Reviews Dec. 613/2 A brick waggon-house, recently built in place of an old pole one, is on the ‘sun-up’ side of the large building. 1927 M. M. Bennett Christison of Lammermoor v. 60 The Dalleburra might camp on the far side of the waterhole, sun-up side. 1989 Acta Criminologia 2 65/1 In cells shared by members of 28 and 26 gangs.., the 26's will occupy the sun-up part while the 28 gang will occupy the sundown part. 1996 Denver Post 13 Dec. (Sports section) c12 This relative isolation on the sun-up side of the range,..proves to be much of the attraction. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1572 |
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