| 单词 | to tell howdy |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto tell (a person) howdy 1. The phrase how do ye?, how do you? (cf. how-do-you-do phr. and n. 1) = how are you? how fare you?: see do v. 13b. Frequently in colloquial phrase to tell (a person) howdy. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > courtesy > courteous act or expression > courteous formulae [phrase] > terms of greeting God give you good dayc1275 hail be thou (also ye)c1275 pax vobisc1275 how do ye?1570 (good, fair) time of day (to you)1597 how goes it?1598 I salute youa1616 savea1616 how do you find yourself?a1646 how-do-you-do1697 how do?1886 how are you popping (up)?1894 how's (less frequently how are) tricks?1915 how's (or how are) things (or, originally Australia and New Zealand, tricks?)1926 how's life?1931 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 1803/1 God be thanked for you. How doe you? c1828 T. O. Larkin in Calif. Hist. Soc. Q. (1937) XVI. 25 They (Southerners) often correct Yankees in their speaking... In those words they are right, but not in..how de for how do you do. 1837 A. Wetmore et al. Gazetteer Missouri 287 With a smile of welcome as she gave her hand, said, ‘Howdy, Joseph.’ 1850 J. Price Let. 17 Apr. in Mississippi Valley Hist. Rev. (1924) XI. 241 Tell Mother and the doctor Howdy. 1856 A. J. Hoole Let. 8 June in Kansas Hist. Q. (1934) III. 56 Give my love to..all enquiring friends; tell..all the negroes howdie for me. 1888 E. Eggleston Graysons i. 5 ‘Howdy, Rachel!’ said Henry Miller..and ‘Howdy! Howdy!’ came from the two sisters, to which Rachel answered with a cordial ‘Howdy! Come in!’ 1917 J. M. Grider War Birds 20 Sept. (1927) 10 All the soldiers in the harbor came over to tell us howdy. 1928 L. North Parasites i. 30 Mr. Ashton greeted Henry a trifle more warmly... ‘Howdy,’ he said. 1973 J. Mann Only Security ii. 16 I ought really to go in and say howdy to her. < as lemmas |
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