| 单词 | to sing out morbleu |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto sing out morbleu 2. English regional (south-western). to sing out morbleu: to cry out loudly, make a commotion (cf. to scream (also cry, yell, etc.) blue murder at blue murder n. Phrases 1). ΚΠ 1888 N. Cornwall Twice Rescued xvii. 211 Just listen to my Johnnie—he is singing out marblue. 1893 Notes & Queries 9 Dec. 469/1 A Dorset rustic [told] me..how he had recently watched a stoat attack..a rabbit. The rabbit, he went on to say, was ‘singing out “Morbleu” like anything’. 1894 Notes & Queries 13 Jan. 34/1 I can remember sixty and more years ago at Launceston, the expression being used, if a boy were whipped, that he ‘sang out “Morbleu”’; and it has frequently been employed in my hearing since. a1903 M. A. Courtney in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1903) IV. 160/1 [Cornwall] To sing out, Morbleu [to cry out, to make a great noise]. < as lemmas |
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