| 单词 | to make merry over |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto make merry over (also †with) b. to make merry over (also †with): to make fun of, to ridicule; also reflexive in early use. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > banter or good-humoured ridicule > banter [verb (transitive)] > make fun of to have (also i-do) (something) to gameeOE to make (a) game of (also at, on)?c1250 overmirtha1400 sporta1533 to make a sport of1535 to make (up) a lip1546 to give one a (or the) gleek1567 to make a May game of1569 to play with a person's nose1579 to make merry over (also with)1621 game1699 to make fun of1732 hit1843 1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy Democritus to Rdr. 37 Accounting it an excellent thing..to make our selues merry with other mens obliquities, when as he himselfe is more faultie then the rest, mutato nomine de te fabula narratur, he may take himselfe by the nose for a foole. 1704 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion III. xiv. 399 They had made themselves merry with some improprieties in the French. 1761 D. Hume Hist. Eng. II. xxviii. 135 The people made merry with the Cardinal's ostentation. 1771 O. Goldsmith Hist. Eng. II. 403 The people made merry with this absurd and brutal statute. 1890 Sat. Rev. 25 Oct. 481/2 He makes merry over their deficiencies. a1917 E. Thomas Childhood E. Thomas (1938) ii. 31 My father and I made merry over the Devil and the folly of believing in him. < as lemmas |
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