| 单词 | to make a meal of |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto make a (also †one's) meal of Phrases P1. meal's meat (also meal of meat) = sense 3b. Now regional. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > meal > [noun] mealeOE meatshiplOE meal of meatc1330 meal's meatc1330 refectiona1425 eating1483 mealtide1485 repasc1485 sustenancea1500 breakfast1526 repast1530 recreation1538 cooking1804 eat1844 scoff1846 grub1857 khana1859 meetsuk1896 nosh1964 trough1981 c1330 (?c1300) Guy of Warwick (Auch.) 6845 (MED) A meles mete ȝif þou me. c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Huntington HM 137) (1873) C. xvi. 36 Crauede..A meles mete for a poure man. Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 331 Meel of mete.., commestio. a1500 (a1400) Sir Cleges (Adv.) (1930) 353 (MED) For my labor schall i nott get But yt be a melys mete. 1511 in T. Stapleton Plumpton Corr. (1839) p. cxviii Sir Robert Plomton..paid for every maile of meate..iiijd for himselfe, & iid for his servant. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 454/2 In this sence I fynde also je inuite but properly to a meales meate, or to eate. a1625 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Honest Mans Fortune ii. iii, in Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Vuuuu/2 You never yet had a meales meat from my Table. 1693 J. Dryden in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires xiv. 292 King Saturn..gave this Example by making a Meals-meat of his own Children. 1717 Entertainer No. 6. 36 The Parasite may smell a Feast at C—t, and go flatter Some-body there for a Meals-meat. 1780 S. Lee Chapter of Accidents iv. 75 I do verily think my turn wull cuome next;—cant zleep n my bed for thinking on't, nor enjoy a meal's meat. 1828 C. Lamb Barbara S—— in Elia 2nd Ser. 130 Enough to say, that her Saturday's pittance was the only chance of a Sunday's, (generally their only,) meal of meat. 1880 Yorkshireman 74 They wor as gooid as a meal's meyt tul him. 1900 A. McIlroy By Lone Craig-linnie Burn 30 A' hae niver known what it was tae be ailin, or miss a male's meat. 1925 E. C. Smith Mang Howes & Knowes 10 If there was a mael o meat ti be bocht. 1953 M. Traynor Eng. Dial. Donegal 182/1 Meal's-meat, a meal; enough for a meal. ΚΠ a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 17622 Wald þon me leif freind te seme For to cum wit us to mele. 1635 E. Pagitt Christianographie (1636) i. iii. 205 They which fast may goe to meale at ten, eleven, or twelve of the clocke. P3. at meal: at table, at mealtimes; dining. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > meal > [adverb] > at meals at (the) meateOE at mealc1400 at tablec1400 at meat and meal1599 c1400 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Trin. Cambr. R.3.14) (1960) A. i. 24 Mete at meel for myseise of þiselue. a1450 Castle Perseverance (1969) l. 258 But if mans Flesch fare wel Bot[h]e at mete and at mel, Dyth I am in gret del. 1533 T. Elyot Castel of Helthe 42 b For moche abundance of drinke at meale, drowneth the meate eaten. 1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus Accubare apud aliquem, to be at the table in a mans house: to sitte at meale with him. 1620 T. Venner Via Recta viii. 185 The wholesomnesse of wine..moderately taken at meale..is..well knowne. 1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 235. ⁋3 It was an unspeakable Pleasure to visit or sit at Meal in that Family. 1808 M. G. Lewis Tales of Terror (ed. 2) 76 Yet oft have I seen you, when hungry at meal, 'On a dead bullock's heart gaze with tender delight. 1876 W. Morris First Foray of Aristomenes in Two Sides of River 17 The pillared house, through whose court-gates flung wide Came sound of folk at meal in hot noontide. P4. to make a (also one's) meal on (also upon): to devour, to feed on. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > processes or manners of eating > eat via specific process [verb (transitive)] > eat voraciously forswallowOE gulch?c1225 afretea1350 moucha1350 glop1362 gloup1362 forglut1393 worrya1400 globbec1400 forsling1481 slonk1481 franch1519 gull1530 to eat up1535 to swallow up1535 engorge1541 gulp1542 ramp1542 slosh1548 raven1557 slop1575 yolp1579 devour1586 to throw oneself on1592 paunch1599 tire1599 glut1600 batten1604 frample1606 gobbet1607 to make a (also one's) meal on (also upon)a1616 to make a (also one's) meal of1622 gorge1631 demolish1639 gourmanda1657 guttle1685 to gawp up1728 nyam1790 gamp1805 slummock1808 annihilate1815 gollop1823 punish1825 engulf1829 hog1836 scoff1846 brosier1850 to pack away1855 wolf1861 locust1868 wallop1892 guts1934 murder1935 woof1943 pelicana1953 pig1979 a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) ii. i. 119 O thou mine heire..what strange fish Hath made his meale on thee? View more context for this quotation 1728 W. Byrd Jrnl. 2 Oct. in Hist. Dividing Line (1929) 165 Poor Puss was unhappily making a Meal on a Fox Squirrel. a1790 B. Franklin Autobiogr. (1981) 24 I had made many a Meal on Bread. 1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxix. 332 Once or twice, when our bullocks failed..we were obliged to make a meal upon dry bread and water. P5. to make a (also †one's) meal of: a. To consume as a meal, to devour; (in extended use) to take advantage of, exploit, ravage, etc. See also make v.1 49. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > processes or manners of eating > eat via specific process [verb (transitive)] > eat voraciously forswallowOE gulch?c1225 afretea1350 moucha1350 glop1362 gloup1362 forglut1393 worrya1400 globbec1400 forsling1481 slonk1481 franch1519 gull1530 to eat up1535 to swallow up1535 engorge1541 gulp1542 ramp1542 slosh1548 raven1557 slop1575 yolp1579 devour1586 to throw oneself on1592 paunch1599 tire1599 glut1600 batten1604 frample1606 gobbet1607 to make a (also one's) meal on (also upon)a1616 to make a (also one's) meal of1622 gorge1631 demolish1639 gourmanda1657 guttle1685 to gawp up1728 nyam1790 gamp1805 slummock1808 annihilate1815 gollop1823 punish1825 engulf1829 hog1836 scoff1846 brosier1850 to pack away1855 wolf1861 locust1868 wallop1892 guts1934 murder1935 woof1943 pelicana1953 pig1979 1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue ii. 274 On the Saturdayes, we alwaies made our meales of Mondongo's. 1638 R. Baker tr. J. L. G. de Balzac New Epist. III. 9 Thus I doe but tast of that whereof you make full meales. 1665 R. Boyle Occas. Refl. vi. i. sig. Mm7 To..make his whole Meal of what was meant onely for Sauce, to give a Rellish to what he rejects for it. 1749 J. Cleland Mem. Woman of Pleasure I. 206 I should have thought any one much out of taste, that could not have made a hearty meal of such a morsel as nature seem'd to have design'd for [etc.]. 1827 R. Pollok Course of Time II. viii. 136 Slander..early rose, And made most hellish meals of good men's names. 1872 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch III. lvii. 266 It was a little too provoking..that this blooming youngster should flourish on the disappointments of sadder and wiser people—making a meal of a nightingale. 1941 J. Harding I like Brazil xxix. 312 You can sit down and make quite a meal of feijoada. 1972 J. Eastwood Henry in Silver Frame xxiii. 191 I wouldn't want the gutter-press to make a meal of me. 1994 New Scientist 12 Nov. 6/1 Oviraptor, first discovered apparently making a meal of another dinosaur's eggs, was, it now turns out, simply trying to hatch its own offspring. b. figurative. To treat with undue fuss or attention, esp. for effect; to make (a task, etc.) unduly laborious. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > carry on vigorously [verb (transitive)] > make brisk or active > bring into a specific condition by bustling > treat in fussy manner to make a thing about (also of)1813 to make a (also one's) meal of1961 1961 C. Willock Death in Covert iv. 93 Dyson..was making a meal of everything. He had carefully paced the distance... He had stuck sticks in the ground. 1970 Guardian 5 Dec. 8/5 He had as one of his guests Inia Te Wiata, whose name has been pretty familiar to radio listeners for some years now but Mr Murray still made a meal, if not a light snack, of promoting it. 1988 Motor Boat & Yachting Oct. 166/3 We..noticed that, although she made rather a meal of getting over the hump, once up on the plane she picked up her skirts to reach 28.5 knots quickly and without too much apparent effort. 1995 C. Bateman Cycle of Violence i. 5 The doctor arrived, nodding, perspiring, as if he was about to make a meal of it, but when he had to say it he was admirably abrupt. < as lemmas |
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