单词 | to make merry |
释义 | > as lemmasto make merry a. to make merry: to be festive, to celebrate; to enjoy oneself with others in drinking, dancing, etc.; also with reflexive pronoun as object in early use. [In quot. c1330 apparently a blended construction: made hem ioie and made hem miri. It is not clear whether the use with reflexive pronoun is the original construction.] ΘΚΠ society > leisure > social event > a merrymaking or convivial occasion > merrymaking or conviviality > make merry [verb (intransitive)] to make feast?c1225 to make merryc1330 merrymakec1395 to have a good (bad, etc.) time (of it, formerly on it)1509 to make pleasant1530 gaud1532 to play the goodfellow1563 company1591 junket1607 rage1979 c1330 (?a1300) Arthour & Merlin (Auch.) (1973) 8218 Þer þai made hem ioie and miri For store and tresor þat þai brouȝt. a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) 1880 Make we vs merie for mete haue we at wille. c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) 2811 Al ȝour mornyng leteþ now ben & murȝere let ous make. a1450 Castle Perseverance (1969) l. 2607 Make us mery and lete hym gone! He was a good felawe. a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 40 Sum makis him myrre at the wynis. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 625/2 Make mery, syrs, we shall go hence to morowe. 1628 J. Earle Micro-cosmogr. xiii. sig. C11 Men come heere to make merry. 1667 in J. R. N. Macphail Highland Papers (1916) II. 15 She dissembled her greife and made mirrie till night. 1733 D. Neal Hist. Puritans II. 248 Church Ales are when people go from afternoon prayers on Sundays to..some public house, where they drink and make merry. 1791 Gentleman's Mag. Jan. 19/1 My horse took fright at some hay-makers who were carouzing and making merry. 1832 Ld. Tennyson Palace of Art i, in Poems (new ed.) 69 Oh Soul, make merry and carouse. 1915 W. S. Maugham Of Human Bondage xxxvii. 173 He could not face again the sight of cheerful people, talking, laughing, and making merry. 1960 B. Kops Dream of Peter Mann 30 Bring out the bunting, make merry, look alive, if you can. 1997 Baltimore Mag. Aug. 40 These places offer an open invitation to..eat, drink, and make merry at your own pace. < as lemmas |
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