| 单词 | to have pepper in the nose |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto have pepper in the nose a. Phrases. to have pepper in the nose: to behave superciliously or contemptuously. to take pepper in the nose, to snuff pepper: to take offence, become angry. Now archaic. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > haughtiness or disdainfulness > be haughty or disdainful [verb (intransitive)] to make it quainta1393 to have pepper in the nosea1400 lord1548 lord1563 to stand (also be, walk, etc.) upon (one's) pantofles1573 cavalier1594 to stand on (or upon) high terms1611 high-hat1922 the mind > emotion > anger > indignation or resentment > be or become resentful [verb (intransitive)] to pick (also peck) mooda1225 disdaina1382 endeigna1382 indeign1382 risec1390 to take offencea1393 to take pepper in the nose1520 stomach1557 offenda1578 sdeigna1593 huff1598 to snuff pepper1624 check1635 to bear, owe (a person) a grudge1657 to take check1663 to take (‥) umbrage1683 to ride rusty1709 to flame out, up1753 to take a niff1777 niff1841 spleen1885 to put one's shoulder out1886 to have (or get) the spike1890 derry1896 a1400 Prov. Wisdom (Bodl.) 53 in Anglia (1927) 51 222 (MED) Have not pepir in þi nose. c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xv. 197 (MED) Þere ar ful proude-herted men, paciente of tonge, And boxome as of berynge, to burgeys and to lordes, And to pore peple han peper in þe nose. 1520 R. Whittington Uulgaria sig. F.iijv Yf ony man offende hym: he maye forth with take peper in the nose and shewe by roughe wordes..yt he is angred. 1583 R. Greene Mamillia i. f. 12v In so much yt as old women are soone angry, she tooke pepper in the nose at the sharpe reply. 1624 R. Davenport City Nightcap iv, in W. C. Hazlitt Dodsley's Sel. Coll. Old Eng. Plays (1875) XIII. 166 Here are some of other cities..that might snuff pepper else. 1694 P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais Wks. (1737) iv. v. 20 Having taken Pepper in the Nose, he was lugging out his Sword. 1993 Evening Standard (Nexis) 26 Aug. 37 They hark back to a golden age, to a type of Scotsman proverbial in the middle ages. ‘Scotus est, piper in naso’. (He is a Scot, he has pepper in his nose.) < as lemmas |
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