| 单词 | to receive or endure the dor |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto receive or endure the dor Scoff, mockery, ‘making game’ chiefly in phrase to give (any one) the dor: to make game of, mock, subject to ridicule; so to put the dor upon, to receive or endure the dor, etc. (From quot. 1552, perhaps originally a term at cards.) ΘΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > [noun] hokerOE hethingc1175 scornc1175 gabbinga1225 bourd1320 scoffc1330 illusiona1382 mowinga1382 derisiona1400 mockery?a1439 alluding1535 dor1552 jerking1565 mock1569 frumpery1582 subsannation1587 floutage1600 ridiculous1605 ludibry1637 ridicule1675 razoo1888 stick1956 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Dorre at cardes. 1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Oiiv/1 A Dorre, blanke, argutia. 1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. viii. 494/2 The dorre, which..Hubert did put vpon K. John and his late design. 1616 B. Jonson Cynthias Revels (rev. ed.) v. ii, in Wks. I. 236 Which [change of colour] if your Antagonist,..shall ignorantly be without, and your selfe can produce; you giue him the dor. [See the whole passage.] a1625 J. Fletcher Women Pleas'd iii. iii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Eeeeeev/2 I will never beare this, Never endure this dor. 1633 P. Fletcher Purple Island vii. xxv. 91 There oft to rivalls lends the gentle Dor, Oft takes (his mistresse by) the bitter Bob. a1640 J. Fletcher & P. Massinger Lovers Progres i. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Iii4/1 I would not receive the Dor. a1640 J. Fletcher & P. Massinger Loves Pilgrimage iii. ii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Bbbbbbbb3v/1 What dor unto a doating Maid this was, What a base breaking off. 1642 J. Milton Apol. Smectymnuus 20 [He] brings home the dorre upon himselfe. 1742 R. North & M. North Life F. North 172 They all thought he had put the Dor, as they say, upon the Chief Justice. 1855 C. Kingsley Westward Ho! xxxi He has given the Lord High Admiral the dor. < as lemmas |
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