| 单词 | to rub up |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto rub up to rub up 1. transitive. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > memory > call to mind, recollect [verb (transitive)] > something specified recollect1559 to rub up?1571 rub1574 recall1579 mind1590 resummon1605 ?1571 tr. G. Buchanan Detectioun Marie Quene of Scottes sig. Ijv I had rathest rubbe vp the remembrance of that day quhen the Quene..came to the nobilitie. 1586 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. I. 724 We spake of it before, but we must of necessitie often rub vp the remembrance thereof. 1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 596 Rubbing vp the slaughters at Caire, Eubœa, Methone, and Constantinople. 1647 N. Bacon Hist. Disc. Govt. 236 Then the Clergy rub up all old sores, and exhibite their complaints to their holy Father. 1680 Sir C. Lyttelton in E. M. Thompson Corr. Family of Hatton (1878) I. 232 If you have a mind to rubb up ye memory of yr old loves, I can help you a little in it. 1715 Disc. on Death 7 They..began to rub up their Memories of their past. 1827 W. Scott Jrnl. 21 July (1941) 79 We rubbed up some recollections of twenty years ago. 1840 T. Hood Up Rhine 6 We rubbed up our old stories and old songs. 1882 D. B. W. Sladen Frithjof & Ingeborg 139 When I look upon her face, Making Dick a schoolboy Cid, Rubbing up the feats he did. b. To refresh or strengthen (one's memory, knowledge, skills, etc.). Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > amending > restoration > restore [verb (transitive)] > renovate or renew > refurbish > specific something immaterial to rub up1594 1594 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. II. 502 Their memories are rubbed vp by doctrine and instruction bestowed vpon them. 1643 J. Lightfoot Handfull Gleanings Exod. 11 Moses..rubbeth up his faith againe. 1663 S. Patrick Parable of Pilgrim 314 To rub up my memory and to fasten those things in my mind which hung loose before. 1727 J. M. Smythe Rival Modes ii. 19 If he should forget..I can but rub up his Memory with asking him. 1778 F. Burney Let. 27 Aug. in Early Jrnls. & Lett. (1994) III. 112 There can be no better House for rubbing up the memory. 1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering II. 328 An East-Indian must rub up his faculties a little..before he enters this sort of society. 1818 Lady Morgan in Passages from Autobiogr. (1859) 126 I..have begun a course of history, ancient and modern, to rub up my memory before I touch on classic ground. 1989 R. A. B. Mynors tr. Erasmus Adages 53 We speak also of rubbing up the memory, or jogging the memory, which means administering a mild reminder, but nearly always with intent to annoy. c. To brush up, revive, or renew one's knowledge of (a subject). Also occasionally intransitive. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > education > learning > [verb (transitive)] > relearn to rub up1613 relearn1694 refresh1781 to brush up1788 1613 J. Heath tr. P. Du Moulin Accomplishm. Prophecies iv. 285 The importunity of our adversaries haue forced me to play the schoole boy, and to rub vp my old Grammar learning. 1775 R. B. Sheridan Rivals iii. iv I must rub up my balancing, and chasing, and boring. 1799 H. More Strict. Mod. Syst. Fem. Educ. (ed. 4) I. 232 Some profession, which should oblige him, as we say, to rub up his Greek and Latin. 1813 T. B. Macaulay Let. 8 May in G. O. Trevelyan Life & Lett. Macaulay (1876) I. i. 44 I shall have also to rub up my Mathematics. 1863 J. Coldstream in Balfour Biogr. (1865) v. 190 I was far behind and very much needed to ‘rub up’. 1884 H. R. Haggard Dawn I. xx. 307 I shall be glad of the opportunity of rubbing up my classics a little. 1909 Munsey's Mag. Sept. 922/2 She thanked Mrs. Westmoreland for the charming afternoon and the privilege of rubbing up her rusty French. 1960 N. Mitford Don't tell Alfred ii. 27 He had gone to Barcelona to rub up his Spanish. 2. transitive. To make clean, clear, or bright (again) by rubbing. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > scouring, scrubbing, or rubbing > scour, scrub, or rub [verb (transitive)] ruokenc1275 scour?a1366 ruba1382 shorec1460 off-scour1578 scrubc1595 to rub up1605 hog1651 scummer1678 scurrifunge1789 1605 C. Tourneur Laugh & lie Downe sig. C3 With her handes vppe to the Elbowes in a washing-boul, rubbing vppe a baby-clowt. 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew To Vamp, to new Dress, Licker, Refresh, or Rub up old Hatts, Boots, &c. 1847 C. Brontë Jane Eyre III. viii. 183 My first aim will be..to clean down Moor House..my next to rub it up with bees-wax, oil, and..cloths, till it glitters again. 1859 H. B. Stowe Minister's Wooing xviii. 179 He rubbed up his optical instruments to see whether they were rising in right order. 1886 F. R. Stockton Casting away Mrs. Lecks & Mrs. Aleshine iii. 111 In the mornin' I'll rub up that floor till it's as bright as new. 1974 A. Ross Bradford Business 76 Even the short heavy bolts had been rubbed up with a wire brush. 2006 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 24 Oct. c17/5 I rub up my baseballs all the time. 3. a. transitive. slang. To touch or caress (a person, a part of the body) in order to excite sexually. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > action of caressing > caress [verb (transitive)] > caress in order to excite sexually to rub up1656 to touch up1785 titillate1871 touch1892 1656 R. Fletcher tr. Martial Epigrams ix. xxx, in Ex Otio Negotium 102 Me thinks I scarcely am wound up by thee..to the height of Venerie... Thus Phillis rub me up, thus tickle mee. 1772 T. Bridges Burlesque Transl. Homer (rev. ed.) 42 Thetis, stroking your knees, as on the ground you sat, and rubbing up, the Lord knows what. 1865 ‘Philocomus’ Love Feast ii. 16 I rubbed it up, I stroked it down..and then with gentle touch Rubbed the soft nut I loved so much. 1939 J. Joyce Finnegans Wake i. 203 Rubbing her up and smoothing her down, he baised his lippes in smiling mood. 1997 B. O'Connor Tell her you love Her 141 They'd sloppy-kiss, edge to the tank; rub each other up, but I was on guard, stayed solid, watched for the sudden lunge, the stabbing fork. 2001 Sleazenation Dec. 115/1 An utterly punk-rock shambles ensued with..her female stage-mate rubbing-up the girls at the front and caressing breasts willy-nilly. b. intransitive. slang. To masturbate; (also) to rub oneself on a person or thing in a sexually arousing manner. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > masturbation > masturbate [verb (intransitive)] frig1598 mastuprate1623 masturbate1839 to jerk off1865 rub1902 to rub up1902 wank1905 to jack off1916 to pull one's (or the) pud (also pudding, wire, etc.)1927 to toss off1927 to play pocket billiards1940 to beat one's meat1948 to wank off1951 whack1969 to choke the chicken1975 fap2001 1902 J. S. Farmer & W. E. Henley Slang VI. at Rub To masturbate..; also to rub up. 1937 E. Partridge Dict. Slang 710/2 Rub up, the v. corresponding to rub off, 2 [i.e. a masturbation]. 1963 C. Mackenzie My Life & Times II. 115 Just as I was going down the steps into our area B—— asked me if I ever rubbed up... In bed that night I tried the experiment recommended by B——. 2007 H. Hunter & M. Valentine Insatiable 216 Many were coked up and horny, judging by the way they were rubbing up on each other. 4. transitive. To mix or prepare by rubbing. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > prepare [verb (transitive)] > for use > by rubbing, beating, etc. tewa1642 to rub up1697 1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World i. 2 We..rubb'd up 20 or 30 pound of Chocolate with Sugar to sweeten it. 1782 Gentleman's Mag. Oct. 488/2 Two ounces of mercury, rubbed with a drop or two of vitrilic ether, to which was added barely a grain of the white powder, which was afterwards rubbed up with it for about three minutes. 1843 R. J. Graves Syst. Clin. Med. xi. 127 The camphor should be previously triturated..and the whole must be rubbed up into the form of an emulsion. 1873 E. Spon Workshop Receipts 1st Ser. 3/1 No ink should be used except indian ink, rubbed up fresh every day upon a clean palette. 1913 F. Forchheimer Therapeusis Internal Dis. II. vi. 203 Ten grains..of the subnitrate may be rubbed up in chalk mixture and should be given every two or three hours. 1989 O. Senior in S. Brown Caribbean New Wave (1990) 165 Once I helped her to rub up the flour dumplings. 5. transitive. to rub (a person, etc.) up the wrong way = sense 5a. Also without the wrong way. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > anger > irritation > irritate [verb (transitive)] gremec893 grillc897 teenOE mispay?c1225 agrillec1275 oftenec1275 tarya1300 tarc1300 atenec1320 enchafec1374 to-tarc1384 stingc1386 chafe?a1400 pokec1400 irec1420 ertc1440 rehete1447 nettlec1450 bog1546 tickle1548 touch1581 urge1593 aggravate1598 irritate1598 dishumour1600 to wind up1602 to pick at ——1603 outhumour1607 vex1625 bloody1633 efferate1653 rankle1659 spleen1689 splenetize1700 rile1724 roil1742 to put out1796 to touch (also get, catch, etc.) (a person) on the raw1823 roughen1837 acerbate1845 to stroke against the hair, the wrong way (of the hair)1846 nag1849 to rub (a person, etc.) up the wrong way1859 frump1862 rattle1865 to set up any one's bristles1873 urticate1873 needle1874 draw1876 to rough up1877 to stick pins into1879 to get on ——1880 to make (someone) tiredc1883 razoo1890 to get under a person's skin1896 to get a person's goat1905 to be on at1907 to get a person's nanny1909 cag1919 to get a person's nanny-goat1928 cagmag1932 peeve1934 tick-off1934 to get on a person's tits1945 to piss off1946 bug1947 to get up a person's nose1951 tee1955 bum1970 tick1975 1859 D. M. Craik Life for Life II. vi. 168 You have no warmer friend than my father, if only you wouldn't rub him up the wrong way. 1862 H. Aïdé Carr of Carrlyon III. 55 Don't rub her prejudices up the wrong way,..if you can help it. 1882 E. W. Hamilton Diary 31 Aug. (1972) I. 328 Lord Dufferin is half inclined to advise that we should concede this to them in order not to rub up the Sultan more than we can help. 1938 D. Du Maurier Rebecca x. 140 Poor old Beatrice always does rub me up the wrong way. 1971 Weekend World (Johannesburg) 9 May 6/7 Judges, magistrates, prosecutors, defence lawyers treat everybody alike, but the minor officials sure know how to rub up a non-White. 2005 N. Hornby Long Way Down 28 I think they picked me because I hadn't really said anything, and I hadn't rubbed anyone up the wrong way yet. < as lemmas |
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