单词 | to pipe one's eye |
释义 | > as lemmasto pipe one's eye (also eyes) b. transitive. colloquial (originally Nautical). to pipe one's eye (also eyes): to weep, cry. Cf. to put one's finger in one's eye at eye n.1 Phrases 2q(b). ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > weeping > weep [verb (intransitive)] greetc725 weepc900 tearc950 plore1373 beweepc1374 to put one's finger in one's eye1447 waterc1450 lachryme1490 cryc1532 lerma1533 tricklec1540 to water one's plants1542 to show tears1553 shower1597 issuea1616 lachrymate1623 sheda1632 pipe1671 to take a pipe1671 to pipe one's eye (also eyes)?1789 twine1805 to let fall1816 whinnya1825 blub1866 slobber1875 blart1896 skrike1904 water-cart1914 ?1789 C. Dibdin Poor Jack iii. 3 What argufies sniv'ling and piping your eye? 1814 Sailor's Return ii. i, in J. Galt New Brit. Theatre II. 337 Lucy and he must have piped their eyes enough by this time. 1843 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) xxxii. 382 He was very frail, and tearful..his own peculiar mission was to pipe his eye. 1897 ‘Ouida’ Massarenes xxxii ‘One don't pipe one's eye when one comes into a fortun'’, said the wheelwright. 1918 W. M. Kirkland Joys of being Woman vii. 73 So long as you rage and are unseemly your kinsfolk will never pipe their eye. 1982 G. M. Fraser Flashman & Redskins 32 She'd been besotted with me, the fond old strumpet, piping her eye when I left her. 1995 J. M. Sims-Kimbrey Wodds & Doggerybaw: Lincs. Dial. Dict. 227/2 Theer she war, pipin' 'er eyes i' the corner. < as lemmas |
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