| 单词 | to be at words |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto be at words (c) at words: engaged in verbal altercation, quarrelling. Chiefly in to be at words, to fall at words. Obsolete (archaic in later use). ΚΠ 1462 R. Calle in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) II. 372 Your brother and Debenham were at wordes. 1526 C. Mery Talys f. viii The other agayn said he shuld not, & he agayn said he wold bryng them ouer spyte of his teth & so fell at wordys. 1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus at Altercor Cum patre altercasti dudum, thou wast at words. 1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 190 These Turkish workmen and labourers fell at wordes among themselues, and from wordes to fayned blowes. 1680 N. Lee Cæsar Borgia ii. i. 23 Being in her Bath, And by her Women told we were at words, She ran in haste half naked to the Pope. 1841 J. S. Knowles Old Maids i. ii. 10 How's this?—at words? Thy brother John has been reproving thee, And thou resistest him. ?1850 H. T. Craven Blechington House i. ii. 9 What, friends at words? How's this? Avoid, I pray, The evil omen of a bridal feud. < as lemmas |
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