| 单词 | to play pew |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto play pew a. A breath; the stream of air produced by exhalation; the slight sound of this. Earliest and frequently in to play pew: to draw breath, to be alive; to stir; to have an effect; to offer resistance; (frequently in negative contexts) to have the slightest effect; to compete with. Cf. paw n.2 Sc. National Dict. (1968) records this sense as still in use in Shetland in 1965. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > respiratory organs > breathing > exhalation > [noun] pufflOE fnastinga1382 pufta1425 blasting1535 outbreathing1574 efflation1578 expiration1603 perspiration1611 expiring1661 flatus1692 exhalation1742 utterance1844 poof1864 pew1932 1728 A. Ramsay Last Speech Miser in Poems II. 103 He never mair play'd pew. 1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. (at cited word) He canna play pew, is phrase still used to denote a great degree of inability, or incapacity for any business..; also, He ne'er played pew, he did not make the slightest exertion. 1819 W. Scott Bride of Lammermoor x, in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. II. 248 I couldna hae plaid pew upon a dry humlock. 1822 J. Galt Sir Andrew Wylie II. xiv. 134 The genie of Aladdin's lamp could not play peu to you. 1836 Tait's Edinb. Mag. Jan. 31 I could see a lord's living that would not play pue to an Edinburgh writer, buying land with a wadset. 1894 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words at Play-pa Play-pew, to offer resistance. 1932 A. Horsbøl tr. J. Jakobsen Etymol. Dict. Norn Lang. in Shetland II. 657/2 Der'r no..a pju in him, he is quite exhausted. < as lemmas |
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