| 单词 | to make a fend |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto make a fend 1. A shift or effort which one makes for oneself. to make a fend: to make a venture. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > [noun] > risk > a risky undertaking adventurec1300 venturea1566 adventry1616 risk1666 fenda1724 forlorn hope1768 long chance1854 salto mortale1896 crap shoot1958 a1724 Borrowstoun Mous in Ramsay Evergreen I. 144 Scho maid an easy Fen. 1790 R. Burns in J. Johnson Scots Musical Museum III. 306 I'm thinking, wi' sic a braw fellow, In poortith I might mak a fen. a1810 R. Tannahill Poems (1846) 25 I think, through life I'll make a canny fen', Wi hurcheon Nancy. 1823 W. Scott St. Ronan's Well II. vii. 165 Out I wad be, and out John Blower gat me, but wi' nae sma' fight and fend. 1855 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Yorks. Words ‘They make a good fend for a living.’ 1877 F. Ross et al. Gloss. Words Holderness ‘He disn't seem to mak a bit o' fend.’ < as lemmas |
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