| 单词 | to knock round |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto knock (a)round to knock (a)round = to knock about at Phrasal verbs. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [verb (intransitive)] > with no fixed aim or wander > idly roil?c1335 gada1500 stavera1500 vaguea1525 scoterlope1574 idle1599 haika1605 saunter1671 stravaig1801 palmer1805 streel1805 taver1808 traik1818 gander1822 gallivant1823 gilravage1825 project1828 daud1831 meander1831 to knock about1833 to kick about1839 to knock round1848 piroot1858 sashay1865 june1869 tootle1902 slop1907 beetle1919 stooge1941 swan1942 1848 W. T. Thompson Major Jones's Sketches Trav. 8 I'm gwine..to New York,..and Boston and all about thar, and spend the summer until pickin time, nockin round in them big cities, mong them peeple what's so monstrous smart. 1856 C. E. Delong Jrnl. 19 Oct. in Calif. Hist. Soc. Q. (1930) 9 65 Got up late knocked around. 1874 V. Pyke Adventures G. W. Pratt (1890) i. vi. 27 Seems that there's a joke knocking around somewhere. 1884 Marcus Clarke Memor. Vol. 88 I thought it advisable to ‘knock round’ in search of him. 1924 C. Mackenzie Heavenly Ladder iii. 55 Not that I'm against your style of services myself. But most of the people round here haven't knocked around like I have. 1938 G. Greene 19 Stories (1947) 76 He's knocking around somewhere. 1959 P. McCutchan Storm South xiii. 198 Mrs. van Neyland's been a married woman, and she's knocked around. < as lemmas |
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