单词 | to make a work |
释义 | > as lemmasto make a work (i) Also to make a work. To create havoc or confusion; (hence) to make a fuss or to-do, to cause disturbance or trouble. Cf. sense 24. Now rare (Scottish and English regional in later use).In quot. 1574: †to trouble oneself to do something (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > commotion, disturbance, or disorder > be in commotion or disorder [verb (intransitive)] > cause commotion or disorder to make work?1473 perturb1543 hurly-burly1598 to throw (also fling) the house out of (also at) the window (also windows)1602 tumultuate1611 to beat up the quarters of1670 hurricane1682 larum1729 to kick up, make, raise a stour1787 stour1811 to strike a bustle1823 to cut shindies1829 to kick up a shindy1829 hurricanize1833 rumpus1839 to raise (Old) Ned1840 to raise hell1845 fustle1891 to rock the boat1903 the world > action or operation > manner of action > effort or exertion > exert oneself or make an effort [verb (intransitive)] tillc897 stightlea1375 stretcha1375 wrestlea1382 to put it forthc1390 to put one's hand(s) to (also unto)a1398 paina1400 takea1400 to do one's busy pain (also care, cure, diligence)?a1430 to make great force?c1450 makec1485 to stir one's stumpsa1500 to bestir one's stumps1549 to make work1574 put1596 bestira1616 operate1650 to lay out1659 to be at pains1709 exerta1749 tew1787 maul1821 to take (the) trouble1830 to pull outc1835 bother1840 trouble1880 to buck up1890 hump1897 to go somea1911 ?1473 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Recuyell Hist. Troye (1894) II. lf. 181 He made suche werke [Fr. il fist tant] that the libyens had the worse. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 616/2 He maketh suche a worke whan he cometh that all the house is wery of hym. 1574 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xlii. 234 Thay maid na werk To seek ony. a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) i. iv. 20 There is Auffidious. List what worke he makes Among'st your clouen Army. View more context for this quotation 1678 Earl of Arran in O. Airy Lauderdale Papers (1885) III. 102 It is a foolish thing for scots men to complain or make worke heir, or to endeavour a Rebellion in scotland. 1748 S. Richardson Clarissa V. xxvii. 223 O thou savage-hearted monster! What work hast thou made in one guilty hour, for a whole age of repentance! 1816 W. Scott Antiquary I. ix. 191 Ou dear! Monkbarns, what's the use of making a wark? 1883 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 425/1 Passing in and out and making no end of a work. 1948 M. Carbery & E. Grey Herts. Heritage 156 Sech a woork as was made an' all o-er noothin'. < as lemmas |
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