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单词 to play mid words
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to play mid words
1. intransitive. to play mid words: (a) to pun, to make a play on words; (b) to boast. Obsolete.In Old English with wordum in dative.
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the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > common sense > be witty with words [verb (intransitive)]
to play mid wordseOE
gameOE
snip-snap1593
to play on (also upon) words (also the word)1600
quip1908
eOE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Tanner) ii. iv. 96 Ða gyt he ahsode hwæt heora cyning haten wære: & him mon ondswarade..þætte he Æll haten wære. Ond þa plegode [OE Cambr. Univ. Libr. pleogede] he mid his wordum to þæm noman & cwæð: Alleluia, þæt gedafenað, þætte Godes lof usses scyppendes in þæm dælum sungen sy.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) 8652 Þus þe vnwise king plaȝede [c1300 Otho pleoyde] mid worden.
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