| 单词 | to hook jack |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto hook Jack 13. to hook Jack: to play truant. U.S. colloquial. (Cf. hookey n. 1.) ΘΚΠ society > education > learning > learner > [verb (intransitive)] > to play truant to play truant1560 mitch1580 mooch1622 to trig it1796 plunk1808 minch1836 wag1847 to play hookey1848 to hop the wag1861 to play (the) wag1861 to hook Jack1877 to bag school1934 to go on the hop1959 1877 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 4) 294 Hook Jack, to play truant. New England. 1890 Dial. Notes 1 i. 22 Hookey, in ‘to play hookey’, meaning to play truant, used in Maine, but not usual in Boston, where the phrase was and is to ‘hook Jack’. 1892 Dial. Notes 216 In all the period from 1840 to 1850 the current phrase among the boys was to hook Jack. 1905 J. C. Lincoln Partners of Tide iv. 70 The boy ‘hooked Jack’ for a whole day. 1967 Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. xlvii. 7 Hook jack, ‘play hookey’. < as lemmas |
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