单词 | take-in |
释义 | take-inadj.n. Chiefly colloquial. Now only in historical contexts. 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] swikec893 swikedomc893 dwalec950 braida1000 falsec1000 flerdc1000 swikelnessa1023 fakenOE chuffingc1175 fikenungc1175 bipechingc1200 treachery?c1225 falseshipc1230 guilec1230 telingc1230 swikeheada1250 craftc1275 felony1297 wrench1297 deceitc1300 gabc1300 guiling13.. guilery1303 quaintisec1325 wrenk1338 beswiking1340 falsehood1340 abetc1350 wissing1357 wilec1374 faitery1377 faiting1377 tregetryc1380 fallacec1384 trainc1390 coverture1393 facrere1393 ficklenessc1397 falsagea1400 tregeta1400 abusionc1405 blearingc1405 deceptionc1430 mean?c1430 tricotc1430 obreption1465 fallacy1481 japery1496 gauderya1529 fallax1530 conveyance1531 legerdemain1532 dole1538 trompe1547 joukery1562 convoyance1578 forgery1582 abetment1586 outreaching1587 chicanery1589 falsery1594 falsity1603 fubbery1604 renaldry1612 supercherie1621 circumduction1623 fobbinga1627 dice-play1633 beguile1637 fallaxitya1641 ingannation1646 hocus1652 renardism1661 dodgerya1670 knapping1671 trap1681 joukery-pawkery1686 jugglery1699 take-in1772 tripotage1779 trickery1801 ruse1807 dupery1816 nailing1819 pawkery1820 hanky-panky1841 hokey-pokey1847 suck-in1856 phenakisma1863 skulduggery1867 sharp practice1869 dodginess1871 jiggery-pokery1893 flim-flammery1898 runaround1915 hanky1924 to give the go-around1925 Scandiknavery1927 the twist1933 hype1955 mamaguy1971 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. 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). < adj.n.1752 |
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