| 单词 | to make a mow |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto make a mow (also mows) a. A grimace, esp. a derisive one. Frequently in to make a mow (also mows). ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > face with expression or expression > [noun] > grimace or distortion mowc1330 mopa1475 mocks and mows1508 murgeons?a1513 face1533 smile1550 smilet1591 mump1592 ruffle1602 frown1608 stitcha1625 grimace1651 grimask1671 simagre1680 moppet1693 distortion1718 throw1790 rictus1827 mug1844 monkey-face1939 c1330 in T. Wright Polit. Songs Eng. (1839) 339 He makketh the a mouwe. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1874) V. 75 (MED) He took heede how his fader made a mowe and tornede away þe face. a1425 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (1987) iv. 7 Whan a wight is from hire [sc. Fortune's] whiel ythrowe, Than laugheth she and maketh hym the mowe. Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 346 Mowe or skorne, Vangia vel valgia. c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) 4728 (MED) Ieants..stode..glorand on his gome with grisely mawis. 1483 W. Caxton tr. A. Chartier Curial sig. ijv The man that hath grete corage & vertuous mespriseth her lawhynges and mowes. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms xxxiv. 15 Yee ye very lame come together agaynst me vnawarres, makynge mowes at me, & ceasse not. 1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (1586) iii. 170 [They] will not stick to make moes at their maister behinde his back. a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) i. vi. 42 Apes, and Monkeys 'Twixt two such She's, would chatter this way, and Contemne with mowes the other. View more context for this quotation 1660 F. Brooke tr. V. Le Blanc World Surveyed 333 One that we preserved alive was quite amazed, and made us good laughing, with his mows and monkey faces. 1705 R. Beverley Hist. Virginia ii. iv. 24 Another stark naked was sitting up in a Corner, like a Monkey, grinning and making Mows at them. 1794 W. Godwin Caleb Williams I. x. 220 By that devil that..made mows and mockery at his insufferable tortures. 1846 E. Bulwer-Lytton Lucretia II. ii. vii. 252 Bob grinned, made a mow at Mr. Grabman, and scampered up the stairs. 1899 J. Davidson Last Ballad 156 Poor Turlygod..stared and said With a mow and a nod, ‘Whither away, sir?’ 1924 W. Allan in A. B. Harley Sc. Story Recitations 127 Weel ken ye freen's I like a dram o' Hielan' mountain dew, I mak' nae mou's, I winna sham, it aften mak's me fu'. 1962 J. P. Collie in Sc. National Dict. at Mouth There's nae eese roarin at her. She's steen deaf. Jist mak mous an' she'll read yer lips. < as lemmas |
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