单词 | to pumpship |
释义 | > as lemmasto pumpship b. transitive. colloquial. to pump ship (also to pumpship): to urinate; (occasionally) to vomit. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > defecation or urination > urinary system > urinate [verb (intransitive)] migheeOE pissc1300 to make water?a1475 stale1530 leak1598 urinate1599 minge1606 urine1607 water1631 stroana1730 to pass water1738 to pump ship1759 piddle1784 to make one's burn1788 pittle1801 pee1825 micturate1842 tiddlea1852 leck1922 wet1925 whizz1929 wee-wee1930 wee1934 widdle1934 to go (make) wee-wee1937 tinkle1943 void1947 to take a leak1969 potty1972 slash1973 wazz1984 1759 ‘H. Murray’ Life & Real Advent. xiii. 163 The sailor was so enraged..that after exclaiming, ‘What you dog! no other place to pump ship, but in my cabin?’ he presented him with so many blows in the face [etc.]. 1770 Trial W. Wemms 46 I had seen two soldiers about my house, I saw one of them hearkening at the window..and asked him what he was after: he said he was pumping ship. 1788 F. Grose Dict. Vulgar Tongue (ed. 2) at Pump To pump ship; to make water, and sometimes to vomit. Sea phrase. 1886 H. Baumann Londinismen 147/1 To pump ship, sein Wasser abschlagen. 1922 V. Woolf Let. 22 Oct. (1976) II. 572 Its on a par with not pump shipping before your wife. 1938 J. Cary Castle Corner 163 The few passing guests who came now and then to smoke or to pumpship among the stacks. 1973 ‘D. Rutherford’ Kick Start i. 12 A couple of men had come in to pump ship at the stand-up urinals. 1991 P. C. Newman Merchant Princes vii. 199 [He] wanted to pump ship. He left the table..lost his way, and found himself in a kitchen, on the stove of which he relaxed nature. < as lemmas |
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