| 单词 | to go rocking |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto go rocking c. intransitive. Scottish and English regional (Lancashire, Yorkshire, and Northamptonshire). To walk with a staggering gait; to reel. Usually in present participle, esp. in to go rocking. Sc. National Dict. (at cited word) records this sense as still in use in Shetland, northeast Scotland, and Kirkcudbright in 1968. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > walk, tread, or step [verb (intransitive)] > unsteadily wiggle?c1225 walter1399 falterc1400 stammerc1400 dotterc1475 stavera1500 stumblea1500 reel1529 scamblec1571 halper1596 totter1602 folder1607 wamble1611 to make a Virginia fence1671 wandle1686 fribble1709 rock1718 stoit1719 stoiter1724 swagger1724 doddle1761 stotter1781 toit1786 doiter1793 stot1801 dodder1819 twaddle1823 teeter1844 shoggle1884 welter1884 warple1887 whemmel1895 1718 A. Ramsay Christ's-kirk on Green iii. 28 Some fell, and some gae'd rockin. 1801 W. Beattie Fruits Time Parings 16 Now the drink set some a rockin'. 1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel I. 106 As o'er the gay pasture went rocking a clown. 1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words II. 179 He goes rocking along. < as lemmas |
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