| 单词 | to give two hoots |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto give (also care, matter) two hoots (or a hoot) The smallest amount or particle; a whit or atom. Chiefly with negative and in phrases to give (also care, matter) two hoots (or a hoot). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > smallness of quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > a small quantity or amount > the smallest amount > a jot cornc888 grotc888 prickleOE prickOE pointc1300 grain1377 hair1377 motec1390 twynt1399 mitec1400 tarec1405 drop1413 ace?1440 tittlea1450 whita1450 jot1526 Jack1530 plack1530 farthingc1540 minima1585 scintil1599 atom1626 scintillation1650 punct1653 doit1660 scintilla1674 rap1792 haet1802 dottle1808 smiggot1823 hooter1839 heartbeat1855 pick1866 filament1868 hoot1878 1878 J. H. Beadle Western Wilds xxxviii. 615 I got onto my reaper and banged down every hoot of it before Monday night. 1923 R. D. Paine Comrades Rolling Ocean xii. 214 I am glad of that even if he did tell me that as a supercargo I wasn't worth a hoot in hades. 1925 N. Venner Imperfect Impostor iv I can't see this place gives a hoot whether I'm here or not. 1925 E. Fraser & J. Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 120 I don't care two hoots in hell. 1926 A. P. Herbert She-shanties 36 We did not care a hoot. 1926 T. E. Lawrence Seven Pillars (subscribers' ed.) lxxxi. 429 Not that my maimed will now cared a hoot about the Arab Revolt. 1927 Observer 9 Oct. 13 It doesn't matter two hoots how much Oxford is filmed. 1939 J. Joyce Finnegans Wake 351 I did not care three tanker's hoots..for any feelings. 1943 K. Tennant Ride on Stranger xix. 214 I don't see that it matters two hoots in hell if you don't function. 1947 O. Sitwell Novels of G. Meredith 4 The human being who is not worth a tinker's cuss,—or, in a more elegant simile, two hoots—does not exist. 1957 A. Grimble Return to Islands iv. 78 Not that they gave a hoot for what I might say. 1963 V. Nabokov Gift iv. 235 He most definitely did not give a hoot for the opinions of specialists. 1966 Listener 27 Oct. 613/1 Winston Churchill was idiosyncratic in that he did not care a hoot about being thought a gentleman. < as lemmas |
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