| 单词 | to cock a snook |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto cock a snook (at) A derisive gesture, = sight n.1 7c. Chiefly in to cock a snook (at). ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > gesturing or gesture > derisive gesture > [noun] middle finger1562 fig1579 fico1596 stork's bill1616 snook1791 finger-snap1821 monkey motion1845 to give (a person) the finger1874 finger-click1897 two fingers1971 the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > [noun] > making derisive gesture > a derisive gesture geck?a1513 mock-sign1659 snook1791 nose-thumb1963 1791 E. Wynne Diary 7 Dec. (1935) I. 90 They cock snooks at one on every occasion. 1879 A. J. C. Hare Jrnl. 15 Aug. in Story of my Life (1900) VI. xx. 218 If I put my hands so..(cutting a snooks), they might reproach me very much indeed. 1904 Times 24 Sept. 8/3 The young monkey puts his tongue in his cheek and cocks a snook at you. 1906 Drury Men at Arms 36 Her Majesty's ship..cocked her jibboom snooks-fashion at her late enemy the sea. 1929 H. Walpole Hans Frost i. vii. 78 He was like a dirty street boy cocking a snook at Sappho. 1938 E. Ambler Cause for Alarm viii. 128 The Rome–Berlin axis..cocked the biggest snook yet at the League of Nations idea. 1959 M. Cumberland Murmurs in Rue Morgue v. 38 With his right hand he made the somewhat coarse gesture known as ‘cocking a snook’. The thumb and extended fingers, spread in front of the face, made a baffling disguise. 1961 B. Fergusson Watery Maze ii. 48 It would be idle to pretend that it was of much importance; it was really only cocking a vulgar snook. 1965 Listener 9 Sept. 374/2 I walked past the Thatched House..where I and other young journalists used to cock snooks at our superiors. 1980 Times 29 Feb. 10 East German craft last spring embarked upon a new ploy..to net a Danish torpedo,..cooking a snook at Nato's Baltic muscle. < as lemmas |
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