单词 | to do one's needs |
释义 | > as lemmasto do one's needs c. euphemistic. Necessary bodily function, spec. evacuation of the bowels or bladder; an act of defecation or urination. In later use chiefly in plural in to do one's needs. Now English regional. rare after 16th cent. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > defecation or urination > [noun] needOE necessary1440 needinga1500 bodily function1655 occasion1670 toileting1793 call1815 voiding1926 OE tr. Pseudo-Apuleius Herbarium (Vitell.) (1984) cl. 192 Ealle þa biternysse ðe of þam geallan cymeþ heo ðurh ða gemænelican neode & ðurh spiwðan ut anydeþ. c1275 (?c1250) Owl & Nightingale (Calig.) (1935) 938 (MED) He sat an gradde, Bihinde þe bure, among þe wede, Þar men goð to here neode. c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 6338 (MED) Þe gadeling..Hudde him bineþe in þe dunge..Þo þe king þer to com is nede uor to do, Þe luþer þef..smot him þoru þe fondement. 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 31 (MED) Þe man is zuo heui þat ne loueþ bote to ligge and resti and slepe; oþerhuil hy byeþ ynoȝ awaked to nyedes. a1475 J. Russell Bk. Nurture (Harl. 4011) in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 182 Looke þat ye haue þe bason for chambur & also þe vrnalle redy at all howres when he wille clepe or calle: his nede performed, þe same receue agayn ye shalle. 1574 J. Baret Aluearie P 670 He is gone to the priuie or to dooe his needes. 1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy iii. iii. ii. 683 Shee shall not goe forth of his sight so much as to doe hir needs. 1764 D. Garrick Let. 5 Aug. (1963) II. 422 In Italy the people do their Needs,..but in England..they Ease themselves. a1796 S. Pegge Two Coll. Derbicisms (1896) 47 Needs, as in ‘to do one's needs’, cacare. 1881 H. Smith & C. R. Smith Isle of Wight Words 23 I wants to goo and do my needs. < as lemmas |
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