单词 | to cock one's nose |
释义 | > as lemmasto cock one's nose (up) P1. to cock one's nose (up): to turn up one's nose in contempt or indifference; to display contempt or indifference. Now frequently with at. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > think or behave contemptuously [verb (intransitive)] > express contempt by gesture scrape1561 to fork the fingers1640 to cock one's nose (up)1692 to look down one's nose (at)1721 to do a Harvey Smith1973 society > communication > indication > gesturing or gesture > derisive gesture > make derisive gesture [verb (intransitive)] to cock one's nose (up)1692 1692 T. D'Urfey Marriage-hater Match'd ii. i. 11 She would invite him to Bed to her this minute, and the next cocks up her nose, frowns, [etc.]. 1703 Rochester's Ghost in Poems on Affairs of State II. 131 With Nose cock't up, and Visage like a Fury, Or Foreman of an Ignoramus Jury. ?1719 A. Ramsay in A. Ramsay & W. Hamilton Familiar Epist. 5 Ha, heh! thought I, I canna say But I may cock my Nose the Day, When Hamilton the bauld and gay, Lends me a Heezy. a1774 R. Fergusson Poems (1785) 180 You cock your nose Against my sweetly gusted cordial dose. 1841 C. Mackay Mem. Pop. Delusions I. 328 If a lively servant girl was importuned for a kiss by a fellow she did not care about, she cocked her little nose, and cried ‘Walker!’ 1958 A. Sillitoe Loneliness Long Distance Runner 21 We used to cock our noses up at things in shops that didn't move. 2002 Irish Times 5 July 14/1 In his late 20s and early 30s he was an enfant terrible, cocking his nose at the establishment in a sometimes genuinely shocking manner. < as lemmas |
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