单词 | to cock around |
释义 | > as lemmasto cock around to cock around slang. extracted from cockv.1 1. intransitive. To waste time; to act unproductively or with no aim or serious intent; to mess about. Cf. to dick around 2 at dick v. Phrasal verbs 1.Cf. also to cock about 1 at Phrasal verbs. ΚΠ 1974 J. G. Dunne Vegas xvii. 280 Hugh Hill told Jackie Kasey that there would be no more cocking around. 2004 Q Sept. 158/2 It's amazing their landmark debut album was ever finished: behind-the-scenes footage shows them spending most of their time cocking around on roller chairs and skinning up. 2018 @vf3975 30 July in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) Oh come on! Is the GOP going to oppose this..or are they just going to cock around? 2. transitive. To inconvenience or annoy (a person); to waste (a person's time); to mess about with. Cf. to dick around 1 at dick v. Phrasal verbs 1.Cf. to cock about 2 at Phrasal verbs. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > inconvenience > affect with inconvenience [verb (transitive)] trouble1516 misease1530 incommodatea1575 inconveniencea1656 run1697 incommode1702 disannul1794 disconvenience1821 to put about1825 to put out1851 to jerk around1877 to bugger about1921 to dick around1944 to fuck around1955 to bugger around1961 to screw around1967 to fuck about1975 to cock around1990 to dick about1996 to cock about2009 the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > misuse > [verb (transitive)] > interfere with so as to tamper1610 muck1928 gimmick1952 to cock around1990 to cock about2009 1990 N. A. McKelvy Party Chicks & Other Wks. v. 41 You've got nerve cocking me around. 2012 @MerlHammer 25 Jan. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) If our website cocks me around once more there'll be a smashed up computer surrounded by window fragments in the middle of Balcombe Street. 2014 workplace.stackexchange.com 21 Feb. (forum post, Internet Archive Wayback Machine 1 Aug. 2015) They moved the interview to the following week for me, despite me cocking them around. < as lemmas |
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