| 单词 | to cock one's cap at |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto cock one's cap at P4. English regional (northern) and Irish English. to cock one's cap at: (of a woman) to show romantic or sexual interest in (a man); to seek to attract (a man) as a suitor; = to set one's cap at at cap n.1 9. ΚΠ 1772 J. Thompson Poems 45 O! strange to modesty's decrees, To cock the cap at all you meet, To shew the tapering legs and knees, To ev'ry face in ev'ry street. 1783 J. O'Keeffe Songs, Duets, &c. in Poor Soldier 11 I'll cock my cap at a smart young man. 1842 S. Lover Handy Andy xxi. 180 The mother thought Murtough Murphy would be a good speculation for the daughter to ‘cock her cap at’ (to use their own phrase). 1891 W. Cudworth Hist. Bolton & Bowling v. 53 Ann, who, it is said, ‘cocked her cap’ at James Hodgson, of Hodgson Fold, with such success that he married her. 1909 P. W. Joyce Old Irish Folk Music & Songs 67 I'll cock my cap at Shaun MacCann. 1973 B. MacMahon tr. P. Sayers Autobiogr. 153 As I can gather from the whispering going on around me I'm not the first woman who cocked her cap at him! < as lemmas |
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