| 单词 | to fool round |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto fool round to fool round intransitive. = to fool around at Phrasal verbs 1 (in various senses). ΚΠ 1850 R. Hardy Hist. & Adventures Cuban Exped. i. 14 I would find him pretending to work, but merely fooling round. 1894 E. V. B. Matthews tr. L. Halévy Parisian Points of View 168 Instead of fooling round with little white women in Paris, he will fool round with little yellow ones at Singapore. 1935 D. L. Sayers Gaudy Night vii. 147 There are much better ways of enjoying Oxford than fooling round..with the women students. 2009 Sun (Nexis) 28 Apr. 12 Moments later she was grinning again as she fooled round with a little bugle. to fool round —— to fool round —— (also to fool around ——) U.S. colloquial. Now rare. extracted from foolv. intransitive. To hang or loiter around (someone); spec. to flirt with. Cf. to fool around at Phrasal verbs 1, to fool round at Phrasal verbs 1. ΚΠ 1839 Morning Herald (N.Y.) 16 Sept. You come fool round dis child, you get a chuck. 1846 Knickerbocker Oct. 355 That young carpenter, Jack Plane, is fooling around the girl. 1901 S. R. M. Greene Flood-tide viii. 59 She got to foolin' 'round him an' fingerin' the button-hole on his coat. 1954 in Dict. Amer. Regional Eng. (1991) II. He's a-foolin' 'round that old hussy all time. < as lemmas |
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