单词 | to play with |
释义 | > as lemmasto play with —— to play with —— 1. intransitive. To toy with, dally with, fiddle with; to touch or move (an object) slightly; (figurative) to do what one likes with; to treat lightly or frivolously for one's own amusement; to distort. Cf. quot. OE at sense 12a.to play with fire: see fire n. and int. Phrases 2g. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > be unimportant [verb (intransitive)] > attach little importance to > treat frivolously to play with ——c1230 society > authority > control > [verb (transitive)] > have complete control over windc1374 to bring (a person) above the thumb1469 to have to mastery1480 to have at one's beck1530 to turn and wind1557 to bring any one to, or have him at, one's bent1575 to turn over the thumb1603 to lead in a stringc1616 to hold at school1647 to wind (a person, etc.) round one's (little) finger1698 to twirl (a person) round one's finger1748 to twist (a person) round one's finger1780 to play with ——1827 to have (one) on toast1886 to have (got) by the balls1918 to have the wood onc1926 c1230 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Corpus Cambr.) (1962) 41 Ȝe þe pleieð wið þe world nule ich ow nawt iheren. c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) 951 (MED) It ne was non so litel knaue..Þat he ne wode with him pleye. c1400 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Laud) (1952) 1574 (MED) Noyse is gret wiþ tabour and pype; Damoysels playen wiþ peren ripe. c1475 (c1450) P. Idley Instr. to his Son (Cambr.) (1935) ii. B. 950 (MED) Into a corner preuely woll he reche And talke with maydenes and mennes wyffis, Pleye with her purces, keyes, and knyves. 1529 T. More Dialogue Heresyes i, in Wks. 161/1 Than will he call it no scripture, as he plaith with the pystle of sainct Iames. 1605 B. Jonson Sejanus v. sig. M3 Kick vp thy heeles in ayre, teare off thy roabe, Play with thy beard, and nostrils. View more context for this quotation 1635 T. Heywood Londoni Sinus Salutis 295 Even the Horse,..When the most curb'd, and playing with the bit,..snowes the ground. 1650 R. Baxter Saints Everlasting Rest (1651) iii. v. §5 95 As children, we play with our meat when we should eat it. 1713 R. Steele Guardian No. 146. ⁋5 He [sc. a young lion] did some mischief by pawing and playing with people. 1754 Connoisseur No. 7. ⁋2 During our conversation he was..piddling with her fingers, tapping her cheek, or playing with her hair. 1782 W. Cowper Table Talk in Poems 505 I play with syllables, and sport in song. 1827 H. Hallam Constit. Hist. Eng. I. x. 120 It required a dexterous management to play with the army. 1834 Pearl & Lit. Gaz. 7 June 178/3 Angelica fidgetted upon her seat, and played with her fan. 1870 J. H. Newman Ess. Gram. Assent ii. viii. 304 Montaigne..could thus afford to play with life, and the abysses into which it leads us. 1945 Tee Emm (Air Ministry) 5 52 This will give you a little to play with and allow for a drop in barometric pressure. 1965 V. Canning Whip Hand iii. 33 I like a girl who doesn't play with her food or drink. 1976 V. J. Scott & D. Koski Walk-in (1977) xxxiii. 237 He was sweating now, all right. And is he playing with me? he wondered. Is the bastard playing with me? 1978 Lancashire Life Sept. 76/3 How could they possibly build docks when they had merely £60,000 to play with. 1993 Beaver Oct. 56/2 Their freedom to play with ‘the facts’ of history may dismay some scholars. 2. intransitive. colloquial. To masturbate. Chiefly in to play with oneself. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > masturbation > masturbate [verb (reflexive)] masturbate1857 to play with ——1879 to toss off1879 frigc1890 touch1892 to jerk off1904 to pull off1909 jackc1930 diddle1960 to jack off1967 manipulate1971 the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > other types of sexual activity or intercourse > engage in other types of sexual activity or intercourse [verb (transitive)] > stimulate genitals of (a person) gropec1275 feel1569 goose1879 to play with ——1879 fingerc1890 to bring off1916 to feel up1926 to jack off?1927 reef1962 fingle1996 the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > other types of sexual activity or intercourse > engage in other types of sexual activity or intercourse [verb (transitive)] > stimulate genitals of (a person) > stimulate (genitals) to play with ——1879 to bring off1916 manipulate1949 1879 Pearl 1 127 There was an Archbishop of Rheims, Who played with himself in his dreams; On his night-shirt in front, He painted a cunt, Which made his spend gush forth in streams. 1882 H. N. Guernsey Plain Talks on Avoided Subjects v. 87 And is it true that some young ladies, the sweetest and fairest of our race, play with one another in an immodest and indecent way, teaching immorality to the pure and innocent? 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xv. [Circe] 527 You can apply your eye to the keyhole and play with yourself while I just go through her a few times. 1966 L. H. Farber Ways of Will iii. 58 This opening scene of a faceless woman silently playing with herself..sets the tone. 1971 ‘V. X. Scott’ Surrogate Wife 54 He played with me. And little by little..I played with him. 1996 Terminal City 8 July 8/5 If your arms aren't broken or bound, play with her clit while you bang away; encourage her to play with herself when you're fucking. < as lemmas |
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