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单词 to takein snuff
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to take..in (the) snuff (or to snuff)
a. to take..in (the) snuff (or to snuff), to take (a matter) amiss, to take offence at, to be annoyed or indignant at, to resent. Obsolete.The original reference was no doubt to the unpleasant smell proceeding from the smoking snuff of a candle, but there may also have been association with snuff n.2 or snuff v.2 The phrase was especially common between 1580 and 1660.
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the mind > emotion > anger > indignation or resentment > be indignant at or resent [verb (transitive)]
to take in (also on, to) griefc1325
to bear (a person or thing) hard (also heavily, heavy, etc.)c1384
to take agrief?a1400
disdaina1513
stomach1523
to take it amiss1530
to have a grudge against (to, at)1531
to think amiss1533
envy1557
to take‥in (the) snuff (or to snuff)1560
to take snuff1565
to take scorn1581
to take indignly1593
to bear (one) upon (also in) the spleen1596
spleena1629
disresent1652
indign1652
miff1797
pin1934
1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. cccclxiij A brute went that the Pope toke it in snuffe [L. indigne tulisse] that this truce was made.
1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 2281/1 This matter the Justice tooke sore to snuffe, and was very angry.
1579 W. Wilkinson Confut. Familye of Loue f. 41 Hee..taketh it greatly in the snuffe, that his stuffe..should be brought to light.
1617 F. Moryson Itinerary iii. 28 Englishmen, especially being young and unexperienced, are apt to take all things in snuffe.
1661 S. Pepys Diary 6 Oct. (1970) II. 192 Mr. Mills..I expect should take it in Snuffe that my wife did not come to his child's christening the other day.
1716 T. Ward England's Reformation 129 Pray take it not, you old Cur-mudgeon, So much in snuff and evil dudgeon.
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