单词 | to give to eat |
释义 | > as lemmasto give (a person) to eat c. In phrases, to have something, enough, little, etc. to eat; formerly also to have to eat, to give (a person) to eat. Cf. French donner à manger.In some dialects ‘something to eat’ is the common expression for food: ‘The something to eat at the hotel was very good’ (Sheffield). ΚΠ c893 tr. Orosius Hist. iii. xi. §3 Seo leo bringð his hungregum hwelpum hwæt to etanne. c1175 Lamb. Hom. 147 Mon . leuseð his fleis, hwenne he him ȝefeð lutel to etene. 1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 6191 Yhe wald noght gyfe me at ete. c1380 Eng. Wycliffite Serm. in Sel. Wks. I. 17 Þei hadden not to ete. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 13501 All þai had i-nogh at ette. 1611 Bible (King James) 2 Chron. xxxi. 10 Wee have had enough to eate. View more context for this quotation 1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 13 Oct. 2/2 We had hardly anything to eat all the while we were prisoners. to give to eat b. With ellipsis of object before an infinitive, to give to eat, to give to drink, †to give to suck. Now only literary. ΚΠ c10001 [see β. forms]. 1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 6191 And yhe wald noght gyfe me at ete. c1375 XI Pains Hell 280 in Old Eng. Misc. 219 Of aysel and gal ȝe ȝeuen me drenkyn. c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) John iv. 7 Jhesu seith to hir, Ȝyue to me for to drynke. c1400 [see γ. forms]. 1484 W. Caxton tr. G. de la Tour-Landry Bk. Knight of Tower (1971) xxxiii. 55 Loue and honoure thy husbond and lord, as thou dydest this brest that gaf the to sowke. 1862 Temple Bar 4 313 I have given mine enemy to eat when he was a-hungered, and to drink when he was athirst. 1890 Universal Rev. Dec. 503 Having no other way whereby they might give to eat to the children. < as lemmas |
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