| 单词 | to claw up a person's mittens |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto claw up (also lay up) a person's mittens b. to claw up (also lay up) a person's mittens (Scottish): to give the finishing stroke to a person, to kill (cf. claw v. 8). Obsolete. ΚΠ 1755 R. Forbes Jrnl. London to Portsmouth in tr. Ovid Ajax his Speech (new ed.) 30 They may come to lay up my mittens, an' ding me yavil, an' as styth as gin I had been elf-shot. 1819 W. Scott Bride of Lammermoor v, in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. II. 94 And when mamma comes home she'll claw up both your mittens. 1824 G. Smith Home's Douglas 35 I hears a human voice cry out for help..Whate'er they waur their mittens waur laid up. < as lemmas |
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