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单词 take-in
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take-inadj.n.

Brit. /ˈteɪkɪn/, U.S. /ˈteɪkˌɪn/
Forms: 1700s– take-in, 1800s takes-in (plural), 1800s– take-ins (plural).
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: to take in at take v. Phrasal verbs 1.
Etymology: < to take in at take v. Phrasal verbs 1.
Chiefly colloquial. Now only in historical contexts.
A. adj.
That has the effect or capacity of taking a person in (see to take in 11 at take v. Phrasal verbs 1); deceptive; deceitful, fraudulent. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > duping, making a fool of > [adjective]
befooling1681
take-in1752
1752 B. Thornton Have at You All 12 Mar. 198 The most material point usually considered, is a taking, or (as Sir Drawcansir would read it) a take-in Title-page.
1796 R. Bage Hermsprong II. xxiii. 218 Perhaps an Irish fortune hunter; or some such take-in gentleman.
1819 Metropolis (ed. 2) III. 119 Tales of a take-in match and a vicious mother-in-law.
B. n.
1. An act of deception or trickery; a fraud, a swindle; a ruse. Formerly also: †a deceitful or fraudulent person or thing (obsolete).
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > [noun]
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1772 F. Gentleman Theatres 46 Commonly call'd stage business, often essential, but oftner used as a take in, to those who have more eyes than understanding.
1778 F. Burney Evelina I. xxi. 156 I find it's as arrant a take-in as ever I met with.
1814 J. Austen Mansfield Park I. v. 93 What is this, but a take in ? View more context for this quotation
1818 Blackwood's Mag. 2 398 There are..at least twenty take-ins (as they are called) for one true heiress.
1857 E. Bulwer-Lytton What will he do with It? (Tauchnitz ed.) I. i. xii. 90 Comedians are such takes in.
1929 J. B. Priestley Good Compan. 23 It were a take-in, that.
1953 G. Heyer Cotillion vii. 112 I can't conceive why you should be so mysterious! If it is all a take-in, I will never forgive you!
1994 J. Aiken Eliza's Daughter ix. 207 He was so very handsome. And attentive! Only of course afterwards we feared it was all a take-in.
2. slang. A man who escorts a woman in to dinner. Obsolete.
ΚΠ
1898 P. L. Ford Hon. Peter Stirling 136 Peter was..so quiet that Mrs. Gallagher told her ‘take in’ that she ‘guessed that young Stirling wasn't used to real fashionable dinners’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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