| 单词 | to go a-girling |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto go a-girling The action or practice (by a man) of consorting with women or of seeking out female company. Frequently in to go girling (earliest in to go a-girling). ΚΠ 1787 Sessions Papers 10 Jan. 325/2 The maid said two men were missing, and the others said, G——d d——n them, they are gone a girling,..but we will pay for them. 1893 J. S. Farmer & W. E. Henley Slang III. 149 Girling.To go girling,..to quest for women, to go on the loose. 1900 C. K. Field & W. Irwin Stanford Stories 157 The autumn rains came..and still Pellams went girling. 1901 F. Norris Octopus ii. iv. 401 He's gone a-girling at last, old Buck! 1931 L. Steffens Autobiogr. I. i. i. 8 Cowboys..used to come..into town to mix with the teamsters, miners, and steamboat men in the drinking, gambling, girling, fighting, of those days. 1940 Daily Times-News (Burlington, N. Carolina) 13 June 4/3 One man, thinking he was doomed anyway, went girling and liquoring around Paris. 1975 J. Gould Maine Lingo 109 Jimmie's out girlin' tonight. 2004 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 17 June r9 We did everything together except go girling together. I don't think he was interested in ladies—he was too busy working all the time. < as lemmas |
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