| 单词 | to be thorough game |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto be thorough game 20. colloquial. The qualities considered characteristic of a fighting cock (cf. gamecock n.); fighting spirit, pluck, mettle. Formerly also used predicatively of a person considered to possess these qualities (as to be thorough game, to be all game, etc.). Cf. game adj.1 Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > courage > spirit > [noun] hearteOE spirita1382 fierceness1490 stomach?1529 spritec1540 fire1579 mettle1581 rage1590 brave-spiritednessa1617 lion-heart1667 game1747 spunk1773 pluck1785 gameness1810 ginger1836 pluckiness1846 gimp1901 ticker1930 cojones1932 1747 J. Godfrey Treat. Useful Sci. Def. 64 Smallwood [a boxer] is thorough game, with Judgement equal to any, and superior to most. 1769 Oxf. Mag. 3 Suppl. 269/2 They are bloody sportsmen, true game, and will not, it seems, give up to the last crack. c1783 in Roxburghe Ballads (1890) VII. 93 Such horses of mettle and game As are worthy to be recorded in fame. 1813 Sporting Mag. 42 243 A young bull of great game, made play for no less than nine-and-twenty dogs. 1829 F. Marryat Naval Officer I. v. 151 He never showed more game. 1845 C. Dickens Let. 22 Feb. (1977) IV. 270 They were thorough game, and didn't make the least complaint. 1867 Criminal Chronol. York Castle 135 This man made a stout resistance, being a very powerful fellow and good game. 1885 G. B. Shaw Cashel Byron's Profession in To-day Apr. 159 They say that he [sc. a boxer] isnt clever, but that he is full of game. 1898 Forest & Stream 23 July 72/1 He was all game, and even after an hour and a half of brave struggle..he attempted to leap back into the water. 1925 V. MacClure Boost of Golden Snail ii. 49 The big fellow's got plenty of game in him. He may beat the dude fighter yet. < as lemmas |
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