| 单词 | to knock up |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto knock up to knock up 1. transitive. To drive upwards, or fasten up, by knocking; spec. in Bookbinding, etc. to make even the edges of (a pile of loose sheets) by striking them on a table; in Bootmaking, to cut or flatten the edges of the upper after its attachment to the insole. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impact > striking > strike [verb (transitive)] > fasten by striking to knock up1660 society > communication > book > manufacture or production of books > book-binding > bind [verb (transitive)] > other processes to knock up1660 glair1755 board1813 lace1818 crop1824 beback1858 plough1873 cord1876 to throw out1880 guillotine1896 pull1901 reback1901 super1914 the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > making footwear > make footwear [verb (transitive)] > carry out other processes coupa1300 foot1465 unsole1598 close1801 galosha1817 top-piece1830 tree1856 sprig1885 knife1888 to knock up1905 spring1905 1660 S. Pepys Diary 30 Jan. (1970) I. 33 Knocking up nails for my hats and cloaks. 1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 348 Having thus Gathered one Book, he Knocks it up. 1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. Dict. 382 Knock up a Letter,..a Letter may be worn so low that it will not Print well..: The Workman then..beats lightly upon the Foot of the Shank, till he have battered Mettle enough out of the Shank, to raise it higher against Paper. 1888 C. T. Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 71 Knock up, to make the edges of a heap of paper straight and square by knocking up to one edge. 1905 Westm. Gaz. 30 Oct. 7/3 A mechanical device for trimming off the surplus material from the lasted boot before it is ‘knocked up’, and a machine for the ‘knocking-up’ process itself, the latter guaranteed to ‘knock-up’ between 400 and 500 pairs of boots per week. 2. intransitive. To be driven up so as to strike something. to knock up against, to come into collision with; figurative to meet with, come across, encounter. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > occurrence > [verb (transitive)] > encounter or experience ymetec893 findeOE meetOE counterc1325 overtakec1390 limp?a1400 tidea1400 runa1450 to fall with ——?c1475 onlightc1475 recounterc1485 recount1490 to come in witha1500 occur1531 to fall on ——1533 to fall upon ——1533 beshine1574 rencontre1582 entertain1591 cope with1594 happen1594 tocome1596 incur1599 forgather1600 thwart1601 to fall in1675 cross1684 to come across ——1738 to cross upon (or on)1748 to fall across ——1760 experience1786 to drop in1802 encounter1814 to come upon ——1820 to run against ——1821 to come in contact with1862 to run across ——1864 to knock or run up against1886 to knock up against1887 the world > movement > impelling or driving > [verb (intransitive)] > be driven up to knock up1887 1887 A. Birrell Obiter Dicta 2nd Ser. 264 When Montaigne was in Rome..he complained bitterly that he was always knocking up against his own countrymen. 1895 Times (Weekly ed.) 27 Dec. 1034/3 One can't remember all the people one knocks up against in one's holiday-making. 1898 Daily News 24 Nov. 7/2 The smack eventually knocked up high on the shore under the cliffs. 3. transitive. To make up (hastily or off-hand), to arrange summarily. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > rapidity or speed of action or operation > do, deal with, acquire, etc., quickly [verb (transitive)] > do hurriedly and carelessly > make, compile, or concoct to shuffle up1532 rash1570 huddle1579 to knock upc1580 to clap upa1616 to run up1686 to knock out1856 to knock off1886 whang1935 c1580 tr. Bugbears i. iii, in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1897) 98 We wile knocke vp this maryage. 1812 Sporting Mag. 39 138 A match was knocked up betwixt Dogherty..and a man named Burn. 1852 H. Rogers Eclipse of Faith 167 This gentleman himself, with whom Harrington,..has knocked up an acquaintance. 1872 F. W. Robinson Coward Conscience i. viii Why didn't they knock up a match between you and Ursula? 4. To put together hastily; = to knock together 3 at Phrasal verbs. Also, to prepare (food) quickly (U.S.). ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > [verb (transitive)] > construct > patch together patcha1529 to shuffle up1532 rash1570 bepiece1578 cobble1589 consarcinate1610 to clap upa1616 clap1649 to knock up1683 patchwork1856 to fadge up1863 to knock together1874 fake1879 the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > prepare food [verb (transitive)] > quickly to toss up1705 to knock up1869 to throw together1884 whang1980 1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 310 The Balls are well Knockt up, when the Wooll is equally dispersed about all the Sides. 1812 L. Hunt in Examiner 12 Oct. 642/2 The carpenters that knock up our hustings. 1850 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 11 i. 271 A range of farm buildings can be roughly knocked up. 1869 L. M. Alcott Little Women II. v. 61 Don't cry, dear, but just exert yourself a bit, and knock us up something to eat. 1890 Harper's Mag. May 894/2 I jest killed a chicken, and knocked up a few biscuit. 1931 H. Nicolson Diary 14 Aug. (1966) 87 He has got out several tenders for printing... He and Joseph have..knocked up a dummy lay-out. 1967 Official Jrnl. Patents, Trade Marks & Designs (Austral.) 37 1538/2 Plumbing means can be purchased ready made by factories whereas they once might have to be ‘knocked up’..from basic materials. 1972 Shooting Times & Country Mag. 4 Mar. 21/2 They will knock you up a meal to hold you through the coldest day's fishing or wildfowling. 5. To get or accumulate by labour or exertion; spec. in Cricket, to run up (a score), make (so many runs) by striking the ball. colloquial. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > batting > bat [verb (transitive)] > score runs fetch1735 run1752 to knock up1837 to knock off1851 to run out1856 to hit off1857 rattle1860 compile1884 to hit up1895 slog1897 1837 N. Whittock et al. Compl. Bk. Trades (1842) 360 [He] obtains almost full employment,..and ‘knocks’ up £3 or £4 or more weekly. 1860 Baily's Monthly Mag. Oct. 41 Tinley in a trice knocked up 8. 1888 Sporting Life (Philadelphia) 10 Dec. (Farmer) With only 29 to win, White at his next attempt knocked up the necessary item. 1891 Times 12 Oct. 11/5 The Englishmen..knocked up 305 runs before their innings closed. 1955 Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. No. 24. 37 This adds up to over $1500 per week which must be knocked up—just to meet operating expenses. 6. To arouse by knocking at the door. (This sense is not current in the U.S.) ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > state of being awake > wake or rouse [verb (transitive)] > other ways of rousing braidc1400 shake1530 alarm1650 disentrance1663 to knock up1663 knock1706 row1789 cold-pig1834 hullabaloo1936 1663 S. Pepys Diary 11 Sept. (1971) IV. 304 This morning, about 2 or 3 a-clock, knocked up in our backyard..I find it was the Constable and his watch. 1737 A. Pope Epist. of Horace ii. i. 10 Time was, a sober Englishman wou'd knock His servants up, and rise by five a clock. 1853 W. M. Thackeray Eng. Humourists iii. 114 They knock up the surgeon. 1973 National Observer (U.S.) 3 Feb. 7/1 Fielding's guide-book considerately explains that a male host may quite casually tell a female American house guest that he will ‘knock you up at 7:30 tomorrow morning’. The term, of course, conveys nothing more than a rapping at the door until one is awakened. 7. To overcome or make ill with fatigue; to exhaust, tire out. (Esp. in passive) ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > weariness or exhaustion > weary or exhaust [verb (transitive)] wearyc897 tirea1000 travailc1300 forwearya1325 taryc1375 tarc1440 matec1450 break1483 labour1496 overwearya1500 wear?1507 to wear out, forth1525 fatigate1535 stress1540 overtire1558 forwaste1563 to tire out1563 overwear1578 spend1582 out-tire1596 outwear1596 outweary1596 overspend1596 to toil out1596 attediate1603 bejade1620 lassate1623 harassa1626 overtask1628 tax1672 hag1674 trash1685 hatter1687 overtax1692 fatigue1693 to knock up1740 tire to death1740 overfatigue1741 fag1774 outdo1776 to do over1789 to use up1790 jade1798 overdo1817 frazzlea1825 worry1828 to sew up1837 to wear to death1840 to take it (also a lot, too much, etc.) out of (a person)1847 gruel1850 to stump up1853 exhaust1860 finish1864 peter1869 knacker1886 grind1887 tew1893 crease1925 poop1931 raddle1951 1740 H. Bracken Farriery Improv'd (ed. 2) II. vi. 167 Where the Horse is young,..it would splint him or knock him up (as we say) if the Rider were to make his Flourishes upon his Back like a Rope-dancer. 1770 F. Burney Early Jrnls. & Lett. (1988) I. 111 Here's a lady who is not at all tired,..& here am I knocked up. 1856 T. A. Trollope Girlhood C. de Medici xvi. 253 He is completely knocked up from over-work. 1883 R. Gower My Reminisc. II. 244 Walter was too knocked up to join those who rode to the grove. 8. intransitive. To become exhausted or tired out; to become unserviceable; to break down. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > weariness or exhaustion > become weary or exhausted [verb (intransitive)] wearyc890 atirec1000 tirec1000 sowp1513 inweary1611 outwear1614 jade1627 fag1722 to knock up1771 to be sinking1782 1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker III. 79 In passing the sands without a guide, his horse had knocked up. 1849 A. Smith Pottleton Legacy (repr.) 255 Every literary man, however great his success, knocks up at last. 1897 A. Beardsley Let. 25 Feb. (1971) 259 I am aghast at the amount of travelling she [sc. his sister Mabel] has to get through before the tour comes to an end. I do hope she won't ‘knock up’ while she is over there. 1941 I. L. Idriess Great Boomerang x. 78 They travelled fast then, taking the chance. But their horses knocked up. 9. transitive. To break up, destroy, put an end to. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (transitive)] > bring to ruin or put an end to undoc950 shendOE forfarea1000 endc1000 to do awayOE aquenchc1175 slayc1175 slayc1175 stathea1200 tinea1300 to-spilla1300 batec1300 bleschea1325 honisha1325 leesea1325 wastec1325 stanch1338 corrumpa1340 destroy1340 to put awayc1350 dissolvec1374 supplanta1382 to-shend1382 aneantizec1384 avoidc1384 to put outa1398 beshenda1400 swelta1400 amortizec1405 distract1413 consumec1425 shelfc1425 abroge1427 downthringc1430 kill1435 poisonc1450 defeat1474 perish1509 to blow away1523 abrogatea1529 to prick (also turn, pitch) over the perka1529 dash?1529 to bring (also send) to (the) pot1531 put in the pot1531 wipea1538 extermine1539 fatec1540 peppera1550 disappoint1563 to put (also set) beside the saddle1563 to cut the throat of1565 to throw (also turn, etc.) over the perch1568 to make a hand of (also on, with)1569 demolish1570 to break the neck of1576 to make shipwreck of1577 spoil1578 to knock on (in) the head (also rarely at head)1579 cipher1589 ruinate1590 to cut off by the shins1592 shipwreck1599 exterminate1605 finish1611 damnify1612 ravel1614 braina1616 stagger1629 unrivet1630 consummate1634 pulverizea1640 baffle1649 devil1652 to blow up1660 feague1668 shatter1683 cook1708 to die away1748 to prove fatal (to)1759 to knock up1764 to knock (or kick) the hindsight out or off1834 to put the kibosh on1834 to cook (rarely do) one's goose1835 kibosh1841 to chaw up1843 cooper1851 to jack up1870 scuttle1888 to bugger up1891 jigger1895 torpedo1895 on the fritz1900 to put paid to1901 rot1908 down and out1916 scuppera1918 to put the skids under1918 stonker1919 liquidate1924 to screw up1933 cruel1934 to dig the grave of1934 pox1935 blow1936 to hit for six1937 to piss up1937 to dust off1938 zap1976 1764 S. Foote Mayor of Garret i. 22 This plagy peace..has knock'd up all the trade of the Alley. 1776 in New York during Amer. Rev. (1861) 99 The arrival of the fleet, since which almost all business in town is knocked up. 1831 T. De Quincey Dr. Parr in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Jan. 77/2 The establishment was knocked up, and clearly from gross defects of management. 10. To make (a woman) pregnant; (less commonly) to have sexual intercourse with (a woman). slang (originally U.S.). ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > fecundation or impregnation > [verb (transitive)] geta1375 to beget with childa1393 impregn?c1550 season1555 enwomb1590 knock1598 with-child1605 fill1607 fertilitate1638 ingravidate1642 impregnate1646 improlificate1646 prolificate1650 pregnant1660 pregnate1686 fecundate1721 fecundify1736 to knock up1813 to put in the family way1898 inseminate1923 to get or put (someone) in the (pudding) club1936 stork1936 to put in the way1960 the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > engage in sexual activity with [verb (transitive)] > have sexual intercourse with > specifically of a man jape1382 overliec1400 swivec1405 foilc1440 overlay?a1475 bed1548 possess1592 knock1598 to get one's leg over1599 enjoy1602 poke1602 thrum1611 topa1616 riga1625 swingea1640 jerk1650 night-work1654 wimble1656 roger1699 ruta1706 tail1778 to touch up1785 to get into ——c1890 root1922 to knock up1934 lay1934 pump1937 prong1942 nail1948 to slip (someone) a length1949 to knock off1953 thread1958 stuff1960 tup1970 nut1971 pussy1973 service1973 1813 C. Earle Diary 12 Apr. in J. McPhee Pine Barrens (1971) ii. 33 William Mick's widow arrived here in pursuit of J. Mick, who she says has knocked her up. 1836 D. Crockett Exploits & Adventures in Texas vii. 97 Nigger women are knocked down by the auctioneer, and knocked up by the purchaser. 1860 J. C. Hotten Dict. Slang (ed. 2) 166 Knocked up. In the United States, amongst females, the phrase is equivalent to being enceinte, so that Englishmen often unconsciously commit themselves when amongst our Yankee cousins. 1925 E. Hemingway In our Time (1926) 165 Hell, no girls get married around here till they're knocked up. 1934 H. Miller Tropic of Cancer 241 Nearly all the co-eds had been knocked up some time or other. 1952 B. Malamud Natural 133 You haven't knocked up a dame maybe? 1971 H. C. Rae Marksman i. vi. 51 He screwed her, knocked her up first go and..married her..before she could even contemplate abortion. 1973 E. Bullins Theme is Blackness 170 The girls all got knocked-up and set up homes, got married, went on the block or on welfare or turned into booze hounds. < as lemmas |
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