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单词 to make many words
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to make many words
(b) to make many words: to speak at great length; †to draw out a bargain, to haggle (obsolete). Chiefly in negative contexts; similarly to make few words, †to make but one word. Now rare.
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the mind > language > speech > speak [verb (intransitive)] > speak briefly or at length
to make many words1530
to run out1533
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 843/1 To make fewe wordes, a brief dire.
?1532 T. Paynell tr. Erasmus De Contemptu Mundi xi. sig. Miii What shulde I make many wordes?
1594 T. Nashe Vnfortunate Traveller sig. B3 v Not to make many wordes (since you will needs know) the kings saies flatly, you are a miser & a snudge.
1654 Trag. Alphonsus iii. 38 Fall to thy business and make few words.
1677 G. Miege New Dict. French & Eng. ii. sig. Ff 3/3 To make many words about a small trifle, barguigner, contester pour une chose de neant.
1697 J. Vanbrugh Provok'd Wife ii. i. 14 To drive a Quaker's Bargain, and make but one word with you,..you must lay me down—your Affectation.
1718 C. Cibber Non-juror iv. 52 Look you, fair Lady, not to make many Words, I am convinc'd..I am not the Person you desire to be alone with, upon this Occasion.
1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones III. vii. xiv. 122 I will be so far from making any Words with you, that I will give you a Shilling more than your Demand. View more context for this quotation
1752 Ainsworth's Thes. Linguæ Latinæ (ed. 4) I. (at cited word) I will make but one word with you..te absolvam brevi.
1790 G. Washington Let. 24 Jan. in Writings (1931) XXXI. 2 Nor is it my wish to higgle, or make many words to the bargain.
1848 E. C. Gaskell Mary Barton (1897) xxxvii. 328 John Barton was not a man to take counsel with people; nor did he make many words about his doings.
1896 W. Morris Well at World's End ii. xxxiii. 247/1 Therewith dropped the talk of that matter: & in sooth Ralph was loath to make many words thereof, lest his eagerness shine through.
1931 Folk-lore 42 174 Then she sent still more honourable messengers... They..reminded him of his oaths, but he answered,—‘Do not make many words, for I shall never return to her.’
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