单词 | to pluck a rose |
释义 | > as lemmasto pluck a rose 7. transitive. slang. to pluck a rose: (of a woman) to urinate or defecate. Now archaic and historical. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > defecation or urination > [verb (intransitive)] to do one's business1596 to pluck a rose1613 to pay a call1648 to go backward1748 go1804 to do (one's) duty1935 to wash one's hands1938 to spend a penny1945 perform1963 1607 Dobsons Drie Bobbes xvi. sig. O2v One of the maides..went into the calfehouse to pul a rose, and as it woulde be, she pist into hir mistris necke vnknowne to hir.] 1613 F. Beaumont Knight of Burning Pestle ii. sig. D4 Then up and ride, Or if it please you walke for your repose, Or sit, or if you will go plucke a rose. 1665 C. Cotton Scarronnides 127 Forth of the morning doors she goes, In hasty wise, to pluck a Rose. 1735 J. Swift Panegyrick on D— in Wks. II. 290 The bashful Maid, to hide her Blush, Shall creep no more behind a Bush; Here unobserv'd, she boldly goes, As who should say, to pluck a Rose. 1768 L. Sterne Sentimental Journey I. 203 Grieve not, gentle traveller, to let Madame de Rambouliet p-ss on—And, ye fair mystic nymphs! go each one pluck your rose. 1800 in Proc. Amer. Antiquarian Soc. (1897) 12 248 Mrs. M. having occasion to pluck a rose as is usual with delicate women after a ride of 22 miles. 1937 E. Partridge Dict. Slang 641/1 Pluck a rose, to visit the privy. 1996 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 9 Jan. 14 Guests in even the grandest country mansions used to be encouraged to use the garden. It was called going out to pluck a rose. < as lemmas |
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