单词 | to have a word |
释义 | > as lemmasto have a word (b) to have a word. extracted from wordn.int. (i) To speak briefly (with someone). Cf. sense A. 1c. ΚΠ 1592 R. Greene Philomela sig. E2 Tell her I am heere, and would if her leisure serued her gladly haue a word with her. 1631 B. Jonson Bartholmew Fayre iii. v. 45 in Wks. II Stay, Sir, I must haue a word with you in priuate. 1770 R. Cumberland Brothers iv. ii. 45 Please to betake yourself from the door of your cabbin; there's a young woman within I must have a word with. 1842 J. Banim & M. Banim Father Connell III. xiii. 247 Tom Naddy an' I had a word about his poor young misthress. 1934 M. Moore Let. 1 Mar. in Sel. Lett. (1997) 319 Naturally I suggested to Ellen that we have a word afterward. 1965 B. Sweet-Escott Baker St. Irregular vi. 167 It was difficult to have a word in private with any of the British members..because it was a rule that Americans and British should share rooms. 2002 R. Williams Sing yer Heart out for Lads i. 62 My mate the copper still has to go over and have a word, asks the geezer to turn the music down, neighbours bin complaining. (ii) = to have words at Phrases 4d(a). ΚΠ 1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xlviii. 480 ‘We were a very happy little company, Johnson,’ said poor Crummles. ‘You and I never had a word.’ 1910 King George V in H. Nicolson George V (1952) vii. 105 I have lost my best friend & the best of fathers. I never had a word with him in his life. 1935 Z. N. Hurston Mules & Men ii. vi. 287 Celestine is not mad any more about the word we had last week. 2004 Lexington (Kentucky) Herald Leader (Nexis) 17 June c3 We've always gotten along... We've never had a word or anything. < as lemmas |
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