单词 | to cock one's hat |
释义 | > as lemmasto cock one's hat a. Usually in to cock one's hat. extracted from cockv.1 (a) transitive. To turn up the brim of (a hat), esp. in order to follow a particular fashion or style. Also with the brim as object. Cf. cocked hat n. 1a. Now only in historical contexts.Sometimes difficult to distinguish from sense 5a(b). ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > provide with clothing [verb (transitive)] > adjust or arrange > hat to cock one's hat1628 flap1751 slouch1766 slap1782 1628 [implied in: W. Prynne Briefe Suruay Mr. Cozens 71 Ietting vp and downe at Court, in Pauls, or London streets, in Plush, in Sattins, Veluets, Silkes, and cocked Beauers, which affront the Heauens. (at cocked adj.2)]. 1633 P. Fletcher Purple Island viii. lvii. 121 Last Impudence..drowns her just disgrace..: Her feather'd beaver sidelong cockt, in guise Of roaring boyes. 1663 S. Pepys Diary 13 July (1971) IV. 230 Mrs. Steward in this dresse, with her hat cocked and a red plume. 1665 R. Boyle Occas. Refl. iv. xix. sig. Hh5v He took up with his Hat, which by Cocking the Brims he turn'd into a kind of Cup, such a proportion of Water that he quench'd his Thirst with it. 1752 tr. E. F. Gersaint Catal. Etchings Rembrandt 133 On the Head, which is three-quarters, is a Hat with a broad Brim cocked only before. 1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield I. xii. 114 Cocking his hat with pins. 1807 I. D'Israeli Curiosities of Lit. 1st Ser. (ed. 5) II. 489 The same caprice that cuts our coats, and cocks our hats. 1858 N. Hawthorne Jrnl. 19 Feb. in French & Ital. Notebks. (1980) 85 Wolsey's hat..apparently was never cocked, as the fashion now is. 1919 Amer. Hatter Aug. 92/2 Upon the particular style in which a hat was cocked the people of the day could tell whether the wearer was a Tory or a Whig. 2004 N. Steinberg Hatless Jack (2005) ii. 42 Men would give their names to their own distinctive style of cocking a hat. (b) transitive. To tip or raise (one's hat) jauntily, esp. as a familiar form of greeting. Now chiefly: to set (a hat) jauntily on one side of the head. Also intransitive.In early use sometimes difficult to distinguish from sense 5a(a). ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > provide with clothing [verb (intransitive)] > adjust or arrange to cock one's hat1633 to strip up1664 to shoot one's cuffs or (formerly) linen1878 1633 E. May Epigrams Divine & Morall sig. B6 A Dwarfe upon a Mastives backe did ride, He cockt his hat, and set his armes aside. 1691 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) II. 204 Behaving themselves indecently as her majestie past by, looking her in the face and cocking their hats. 1706 S. Garth Dispensary (ed. 6) i. 9 So spruce he moves, so gracefully he cocks; The hallow'd Rose declares him Orthodox. 1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 403. ¶5 I saw an alerte young Fellow that cocked his Hat upon a Friend of his who entered. 1732 J. Swift Soldier & Scholar 12 The Captain, to shew he was proud of the Favour, Looks up to the Window, and cocks up his Beaver. His Beaver is cockt, pray, Madam, mind that; For a Captain of Horse never takes off his Hat. 1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge lix. 282 Cocking his hat for the convenience of scratching his head. 1852 R. S. Surtees Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour i. v. 19 A fancy forage cap, cocked jauntily over a profusion of well-waxed curls. 1912 Times Lit. Suppl. 12 Dec. 568/2 Do you bite your thumb—or rather, do you cock your hat—at me, Sir? 1976 N.Y. Times 1 June 12 Gone are the days of the old wire-service reporter, hat cocked on head, cigarette dangling from lip. 1998 Pacific Stars & Stripes (Tokyo) 10 Jan. (Keeper section) p. xii/1 An elegant rough-neck who always seemed to know just how a fella oughta cock his hat and knot his paisley bow tie. < as lemmas |
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