英语词汇“to work off”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

a. transitive. To finish working at (a task, etc.); to get through or dispose of by working. Also in extended use.

ΘΠ

the world > action or operation > completing > complete (an action or piece of work) [verb (transitive)] > get finished with (a task, etc.)

overcome?c1225

speedc1340

overtake?a1400

rid1467

finish1526

absolve1574

to work off1618

to get over ——a1646

to finish with1823

1618 G. Chapman tr. Hesiod Georgicks ii. 20 Thy Plough-drawne Oxe; thy Maid, without her spouse, And wisely hir'd; that businesse in thy house, May first worke off; and then to Tillage come [no exact equivalent in Gk. original].

1778 J. Haigh Dyer's Assistant 33 When a Vat has been heated two or three Times, and a good Part has been worked off.

1795 W. Woodfall et al. Impartial Rep. Deb. 6th Session 17th Parl. II. 102 They, therefore, requested to be exempted till they had worked off their stock in hand.

1892 W. S. Gilbert Mountebanks i Giuseppe, he's to be married tomorrow,..and so on until we are all worked off.

1920 Westm. Gaz. 2 Dec. 4/2 When the existing contracts for new steamships are worked off.

1997 P. Prown & H. P. Newquist Legends of Rock Guitar xvii. 131/1 Gregg returned to L. A. to work off the rest of the Liberty contract.

2004 G. P. O'Reilly et al. in Networks 2004 Proc. 11th Internat. Telecommunications Network & Planning Symp. 210/1 The second labor shift cleared out imports while working off the remaining backlog of exports.

b. transitive. To pay off (a debt) gradually or in stages; (now usually) to earn money to pay off a (debt); (also, esp. in early use) to discharge (a debt or obligation) by labour instead of a monetary payment. Cf. earlier to work out 2 at Phrasal verbs 1.

ΚΠ

1701 View of Paris 90 In less than Nine Years they [sc. the French government] cannot work off half their gross Debt.

1781 W. Coxe Acct. Prisons & Hospitals in Russia i. 6 The principle of obliging the debtor to work off his debts by his own labour is just and plausible in theory.

1837 Legality or Illegality of Imprisonment for Debt? III. 4 In other countries..the objects of the law are to..assist rather than impede him [sc. the debtor] in the practice of honest industry, whereby he may obtain subsistence and work off his debts.

1898 C. T. Eben tr. G. Mittelberger Journey To Pennsylvania 31 He must work his debt off as a slave and poor serf.

1917 P. G. Wodehouse Uneasy Money iv. 23 I'm an English countess, doing barefoot dancing to work off the mortgage on the ancestral castle.

1966 M. F. Thorp Sarah Orne Jewett 9 She worked off the mortgage on the farm and began to put money in the bank.

1986 P. Auster Locked Room vii. 122 People who owe him money are rarely sued or taken to court—but are given a chance to work off their debts by rendering him services.

2005 Sunday Times (Nexis) 14 Aug. (Features section) 38 Many are opting to stay on during the summer to get jobs for working off that overdraft.

a. transitive. To remove (something material) by persistent rubbing, scraping, etc.In quot. 1640 in figurative context.

ΘΠ

the world > space > place > removal or displacement > remove or displace [verb (transitive)] > remove or take away > from the position of being on > by continuous force

sweep1577

to work off1621

1621 G. Markham Hungers Preuention xii. 161 Gently rubbing and chafing the Lymed feathers betweene your fingers, working off the Lyme.

1640 T. Fuller Joseph's Coat 175 Some Theeves have eat off their Irons, and fretted off their Fetters with Mercury water; but there is no way to worke off the Chaines of our Naturall Corruption.

1703 S. Parker tr. Eusebius Eccl. Hist. viii. 146 When the Flesh of her Sides and Breasts had been wrought off with Pincers, she was Sentenc'd to the Sea.

1799 Trans. Soc. Arts 17 337 Work off the remaining wood with a large firming chissel.

1864 Amer. Agriculturalist Dec. 338/1 The liver may now be disengaged, by working it off from its attachments next the kidneys.

1895 Stone July 163 This tool is used to work off the inequalities left by the pick.

1930 Pop. Sci. Monthly May 134/3 If a deep nick must be ground out, the edge left by the grinding wheel must be worked off on the hand stone before you can finish it to a keen cutting edge.

1986 J. Townshend in A. Limon et al. Home Owner Man. (ed. 2) vi. ii. 846 The flame will soften the paint so that it is easily worked off with a scraper.

2010 Tampa (Florida) Tribune (Nexis) 6 June (Sports section) 2 Mangrove snapper are just big enough to fillet, and the skin is then worked off with a thin-bladed knife.

b. transitive. To reduce or eliminate (a feeling, condition, etc.) by action or effort; (now) esp. to get rid of (surplus energy, strong emotion, etc.) through vigorous exercise; to take exercise to lose (weight, or food as representing this).

ΘΠ

the world > space > place > removal or displacement > remove or displace [verb (transitive)] > get or be rid of > specifically a thing > by gradual process

to work out?1560

to work off1678

1678 T. Rymer Trag. Last Age 83 This Scene having wrought off the Remains of Phedra's frenzy, in the next she seems more calm.

1702 A. de la Pryme Let. 27 Mar. in Diary (1870) ii. 251 Returning to his labour,..he sweat and wrought it [sc. canine madness] of without any physic.

1737 H. Bracken Farriery Improved xxv. 368 Nature is working off some latent Enemy.

1756 C. Smart tr. Horace Satires ii. ii, in tr. Horace Wks. (1826) II. 97 When exercise has worked off your squeamishness..then let me see you despise mean viands.

1836 F. Marryat Mr. Midshipman Easy II. x. 280 You..take some of his quack medicine, and then he will allow you a run on shore to work it off.

1873 J. A. Symonds Stud. Greek Poets vii. 194 Should a man arise capable of seeing rightly and living purely, he may work off the curse.

1922 J. S. Kingston Our Homes 108 A man sitting writing all day could not work off the calories contained in the food that a man would require who was using a pick and shovel all day.

1943 E. Blyton Summer Term at St Clare's viii. 53 Carlotta worked off some of her restlessness in the playgrounds, but still had plenty left by the time the bell went for classes again.

1957 Washington Post 20 Sept. c10/5 A ‘slimnastics’ class—to help the ladies work off the pounds gained by the gourmet cooking.

1996 Guardian 23 Nov. (Weekend Suppl.) 80/4 To work off our meal..we took a hike along the stunning and challenging Kalalau trail.

2003 Here's Health Sept. 59/3 Go for something more energetic, such as capoeira or step aerobics, if you need to work off pent-up energy.

3. transitive. Printing. To print off (a work, sheet, etc.) from type or a plate, esp. in a final form ready for publication or distribution.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > printing > manner or style of printing > style of printing [verb (transitive)] > print in final form

to work off1624

1624 D. Featley Romish Fisher Caught To Rdr. sig. A4^v I could not conueniently procure the proofs to be brought vnto mee, before they were wrought off.

1662 J. Evelyn Sculptura iv. 36 The very first..who published any works of this kind under their names, wrought off by the Rolling-Presse.

1701 Laconics (new ed.) iii. 89 That..execrable Dog of a Printer..has Work'd off the last Sheet..without Sending me a Proof.

1754 Gentleman's Mag. Feb. 58/1 An accident..to the Plate prevented a sufficient number [of etchings] from being wrought off.

1868 E. Edwards Life Sir W. Ralegh II. Introd. p. lxxxi By an accident of a miscarriage of proofs in the Post Office, the three letters..were worked off, prior to correction of the press.

1882 C. Pebody Eng. Journalism (1883) xv. 107 The printers..often found themselves working off papers half through the night and all through the day.

1932 S. Morison Eng. Newspaper iii. 64 Copies of The Post Man, being worked off upon a full, instead of the normal half-sheet, [etc.].

1986 W. J. Rorabaugh Craft Apprentice v. 105 Peck and Clapp worked off more than a hundred copies of one side of a magazine.

2004 L. P. Fleming in Hist. Bk. in Canada v. x. 216 Thomas Chorley set the type and then worked off 100 handbills.

†4. transitive. To dissuade from an opinion, belief, idea, etc. Cf. sense 39a. Obsolete.

ΘΠ

the mind > will > motivation > demotivation > demotivate [verb (transitive)] > discourage

remove?a1425

discourage1437

revoke1447

disporta1450

to take offa1616

to work off1627

to put off1631

dishearten1634

disinvitea1641

to put or set (anyone) by1768

eyebrow1876

1627 R. S. tr. V. Cepari Life Gonzaga ii. xi. 231 He..seriously did his endeauour, to worke him off from that conceit.

1644 H. Burton Vindic. Churches 1 A corrupt, prophane, polluted Land, not yet washed from her old superstitions,..not yet wrought off from the spirit of bondage.

1655 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. I. iii. 56 Glauco..had..aimed at some great office in the Common-wealth, not to be wrought off from this fancy.., untill adrest by some friends to Socrates, who made him acknowledge his own errour.

1702 W. Nicolson Let. to Dr. Kennet 28 I am strangely harden'd and impenitent in this Matter, and not to be wrought off from any of my Opinions.

†5. transitive. To make, create, produce. Obsolete.

ΘΠ

society > occupation and work > industry > manufacture or production > manufacture or produce [verb (transitive)]

i-wurchec888

makeeOE

workOE

dighta1175

outworka1325

forge1382

tiffa1400

fabricate1598

elaborate1611

produce1612

manufacture1648

to work off1653

output1858

productionize1939

the world > existence and causation > creation > [verb (transitive)] > produce or bring forth > with ease, speed, or success, or in large quantities

whip1611

to work off1653

to hit off1700

dispatchc1710

to throw off1724

to run off1759

to turn off1825

to turn out1847

to run out1872

to churn out1912

proliferate1912

slug1925

whomp1955

gurgitate1963

1653 W. Harvey tr. Seneca in W. Harvey Anat. Exercitations Pref. sig. a8^v Virgils face is his Idea, and the Exemplar of his future designe: now that which the Artist takes from this Idea, and worketh off [L. operi suo imposuit], is the Picture.

1695–6 Act 7 & 8 Will. III c. 20 §3 A..profitable Invention..for the..more speedy..knitting of..Stockings..whereby great Quantities are wrought off in a little tyme.

1718 W. Melmoth Let. 10 Mar. in Lett. Several Subj. (1749) II. lxii. 118 I am willing enough to join with you in thinking, that they [sc. the souls of both sexes] maybe wrought off from different models.

1774 J. Granger Suppl. to Biogr. Hist. Eng. 271 The characteristic head of Henry VII..., which is unquestionably a cast from a mould wrought off from that politic prince's face.

6. colloquial.

a. transitive. To dispose of or pass off, esp. by fraud, trickery, or misrepresentation; to palm off. Also: to perpetrate (a swindle, scheme, etc.). Chiefly with on. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > defrauding or swindling > perpetrate (a swindle) [verb (transitive)]

nunclea1676

to cook up1686

plant1811

to work off1813

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > treat fraudulently, cheat [verb (transitive)] > dispose of fraudulently

put1603

to bob off1605

to put off1612

impose1650

palm1679

sham1681

cog1721

slur1749

pawn1763

to play off1768

to pass off1799

to work off1813

to stall off1819

to fob off1894

1813 M. L. Weems Let. in Ford's M. L. Weems: Wks. & Ways (1929) III. 92 The Maps..may be work [ed] off and in time to give you bank interest.

1869 Galaxy Sept. 353 Thieves use fences to ‘work off’ stolen goods.

1884 R. Kipling Let. 21 Nov. in C. E. Carrington R. Kipling (1955) iv. 58 I've been writing a story... I'm trying to work it off on some alien paper to get myself pice thereby.

1891 N. Gould Double Event xvi. 112 A nice little swindle you worked off on me that time.

1900 ‘M. Twain’ in N.Y. Times 7 July (Sat. Review Bks. & Art Suppl.) 461/3 He has not written as many plays as I have, but he has had that God-given talent, which I lack, of working them off on the manager.

1948 V. Palmer Golconda viii. 58 Corney had been skiting about his claim for months, and everyone knew it was a duffer, but he hung on in the hope of working it off on someone.

b. transitive. reflexive. To pass oneself off as someone else. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > pretend, dissemble [verb (reflexive)]

feign1297

abuse?a1439

counterfeit1610

personate1710

to pass off1770

to hold out1829

to work off1894

1894 Railroad Trainmen's Jrnl. Dec. 1140/2 He was trying to work himself off as a Trainman.

1897 ‘O. Thanet’ Missionary Sheriff 7 The lightning-rods ain't in it with this last scheme—working his self off as a Methodist parson.

1908 G. B. McCutcheon Husbands of Edith 101 You are the alleged sister of the woman who is working herself off as Mrs. Medcroft.

†7. transitive. colloquial. To put to death; to hang. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > hanging > hang [verb (transitive)]

hangc1000

anhangOE

forhangc1300

to loll up1377

gallowa1400

twitchc1450

titc1480

truss1536

beswinga1566

trine1567

to turn over1570

to turn off1581

to turn (a person) on the toe1594

to stretch1595

derrick1600

underhang1603

halter1616

staba1661

noose1664

alexander1666

nub1673

ketch1681

tuck1699

gibbet1726

string1728

scrag1756

to hang up1771

crap1773

patibulate1811

strap1815

swing1816

croak1823

yardarm1829

to work off1841

suspercollatea1863

dangle1887

1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge lxiii. 304 He was ready for working off; such being the case, he considered it their duty, as a civilised and enlightened crowd, to work him off.

1849 H. A. Wise Los Gringos xix. 116 Soon after, they were properly worked off, and swung, dangling, lifeless figures.

1909 Canada Law Jrnl. 45 469 An executioner..attempted to shew how a victim was ‘worked off’.

单词	to work off
释义	> as lemmas to work off to work off 1. a. transitive. To finish working at (a task, etc.); to get through or dispose of by working. Also in extended use. ΘΠ the world > action or operation > completing > complete (an action or piece of work) [verb (transitive)] > get finished with (a task, etc.) overcome?c1225 speedc1340 overtake?a1400 rid1467 finish1526 absolve1574 to work off1618 to get over ——a1646 to finish with1823 1618 G. Chapman tr. Hesiod Georgicks ii. 20 Thy Plough-drawne Oxe; thy Maid, without her spouse, And wisely hir'd; that businesse in thy house, May first worke off; and then to Tillage come [no exact equivalent in Gk. original]. 1778 J. Haigh Dyer's Assistant 33 When a Vat has been heated two or three Times, and a good Part has been worked off. 1795 W. Woodfall et al. Impartial Rep. Deb. 6th Session 17th Parl. II. 102 They, therefore, requested to be exempted till they had worked off their stock in hand. 1892 W. S. Gilbert Mountebanks i Giuseppe, he's to be married tomorrow,..and so on until we are all worked off. 1920 Westm. Gaz. 2 Dec. 4/2 When the existing contracts for new steamships are worked off. 1997 P. Prown & H. P. Newquist Legends of Rock Guitar xvii. 131/1 Gregg returned to L. A. to work off the rest of the Liberty contract. 2004 G. P. O'Reilly et al. in Networks 2004 Proc. 11th Internat. Telecommunications Network & Planning Symp. 210/1 The second labor shift cleared out imports while working off the remaining backlog of exports. b. transitive. To pay off (a debt) gradually or in stages; (now usually) to earn money to pay off a (debt); (also, esp. in early use) to discharge (a debt or obligation) by labour instead of a monetary payment. Cf. earlier to work out 2 at Phrasal verbs 1. ΚΠ 1701 View of Paris 90 In less than Nine Years they [sc. the French government] cannot work off half their gross Debt. 1781 W. Coxe Acct. Prisons & Hospitals in Russia i. 6 The principle of obliging the debtor to work off his debts by his own labour is just and plausible in theory. 1837 Legality or Illegality of Imprisonment for Debt? III. 4 In other countries..the objects of the law are to..assist rather than impede him [sc. the debtor] in the practice of honest industry, whereby he may obtain subsistence and work off his debts. 1898 C. T. Eben tr. G. Mittelberger Journey To Pennsylvania 31 He must work his debt off as a slave and poor serf. 1917 P. G. Wodehouse Uneasy Money iv. 23 I'm an English countess, doing barefoot dancing to work off the mortgage on the ancestral castle. 1966 M. F. Thorp Sarah Orne Jewett 9 She worked off the mortgage on the farm and began to put money in the bank. 1986 P. Auster Locked Room vii. 122 People who owe him money are rarely sued or taken to court—but are given a chance to work off their debts by rendering him services. 2005 Sunday Times (Nexis) 14 Aug. (Features section) 38 Many are opting to stay on during the summer to get jobs for working off that overdraft. 2. a. transitive. To remove (something material) by persistent rubbing, scraping, etc.In quot. 1640 in figurative context. ΘΠ the world > space > place > removal or displacement > remove or displace [verb (transitive)] > remove or take away > from the position of being on > by continuous force sweep1577 to work off1621 1621 G. Markham Hungers Preuention xii. 161 Gently rubbing and chafing the Lymed feathers betweene your fingers, working off the Lyme. 1640 T. Fuller Joseph's Coat 175 Some Theeves have eat off their Irons, and fretted off their Fetters with Mercury water; but there is no way to worke off the Chaines of our Naturall Corruption. 1703 S. Parker tr. Eusebius Eccl. Hist. viii. 146 When the Flesh of her Sides and Breasts had been wrought off with Pincers, she was Sentenc'd to the Sea. 1799 Trans. Soc. Arts 17 337 Work off the remaining wood with a large firming chissel. 1864 Amer. Agriculturalist Dec. 338/1 The liver may now be disengaged, by working it off from its attachments next the kidneys. 1895 Stone July 163 This tool is used to work off the inequalities left by the pick. 1930 Pop. Sci. Monthly May 134/3 If a deep nick must be ground out, the edge left by the grinding wheel must be worked off on the hand stone before you can finish it to a keen cutting edge. 1986 J. Townshend in A. Limon et al. Home Owner Man. (ed. 2) vi. ii. 846 The flame will soften the paint so that it is easily worked off with a scraper. 2010 Tampa (Florida) Tribune (Nexis) 6 June (Sports section) 2 Mangrove snapper are just big enough to fillet, and the skin is then worked off with a thin-bladed knife. b. transitive. To reduce or eliminate (a feeling, condition, etc.) by action or effort; (now) esp. to get rid of (surplus energy, strong emotion, etc.) through vigorous exercise; to take exercise to lose (weight, or food as representing this). ΘΠ the world > space > place > removal or displacement > remove or displace [verb (transitive)] > get or be rid of > specifically a thing > by gradual process to work out?1560 to work off1678 1678 T. Rymer Trag. Last Age 83 This Scene having wrought off the Remains of Phedra's frenzy, in the next she seems more calm. 1702 A. de la Pryme Let. 27 Mar. in Diary (1870) ii. 251 Returning to his labour,..he sweat and wrought it [sc. canine madness] of without any physic. 1737 H. Bracken Farriery Improved xxv. 368 Nature is working off some latent Enemy. 1756 C. Smart tr. Horace Satires ii. ii, in tr. Horace Wks. (1826) II. 97 When exercise has worked off your squeamishness..then let me see you despise mean viands. 1836 F. Marryat Mr. Midshipman Easy II. x. 280 You..take some of his quack medicine, and then he will allow you a run on shore to work it off. 1873 J. A. Symonds Stud. Greek Poets vii. 194 Should a man arise capable of seeing rightly and living purely, he may work off the curse. 1922 J. S. Kingston Our Homes 108 A man sitting writing all day could not work off the calories contained in the food that a man would require who was using a pick and shovel all day. 1943 E. Blyton Summer Term at St Clare's viii. 53 Carlotta worked off some of her restlessness in the playgrounds, but still had plenty left by the time the bell went for classes again. 1957 Washington Post 20 Sept. c10/5 A ‘slimnastics’ class—to help the ladies work off the pounds gained by the gourmet cooking. 1996 Guardian 23 Nov. (Weekend Suppl.) 80/4 To work off our meal..we took a hike along the stunning and challenging Kalalau trail. 2003 Here's Health Sept. 59/3 Go for something more energetic, such as capoeira or step aerobics, if you need to work off pent-up energy. 3. transitive. Printing. To print off (a work, sheet, etc.) from type or a plate, esp. in a final form ready for publication or distribution. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > manner or style of printing > style of printing [verb (transitive)] > print in final form to work off1624 1624 D. Featley Romish Fisher Caught To Rdr. sig. A4^v I could not conueniently procure the proofs to be brought vnto mee, before they were wrought off. 1662 J. Evelyn Sculptura iv. 36 The very first..who published any works of this kind under their names, wrought off by the Rolling-Presse. 1701 Laconics (new ed.) iii. 89 That..execrable Dog of a Printer..has Work'd off the last Sheet..without Sending me a Proof. 1754 Gentleman's Mag. Feb. 58/1 An accident..to the Plate prevented a sufficient number [of etchings] from being wrought off. 1868 E. Edwards Life Sir W. Ralegh II. Introd. p. lxxxi By an accident of a miscarriage of proofs in the Post Office, the three letters..were worked off, prior to correction of the press. 1882 C. Pebody Eng. Journalism (1883) xv. 107 The printers..often found themselves working off papers half through the night and all through the day. 1932 S. Morison Eng. Newspaper iii. 64 Copies of The Post Man, being worked off upon a full, instead of the normal half-sheet, [etc.]. 1986 W. J. Rorabaugh Craft Apprentice v. 105 Peck and Clapp worked off more than a hundred copies of one side of a magazine. 2004 L. P. Fleming in Hist. Bk. in Canada v. x. 216 Thomas Chorley set the type and then worked off 100 handbills. †4. transitive. To dissuade from an opinion, belief, idea, etc. Cf. sense 39a. Obsolete. ΘΠ the mind > will > motivation > demotivation > demotivate [verb (transitive)] > discourage remove?a1425 discourage1437 revoke1447 disporta1450 to take offa1616 to work off1627 to put off1631 dishearten1634 disinvitea1641 to put or set (anyone) by1768 eyebrow1876 1627 R. S. tr. V. Cepari Life Gonzaga ii. xi. 231 He..seriously did his endeauour, to worke him off from that conceit. 1644 H. Burton Vindic. Churches 1 A corrupt, prophane, polluted Land, not yet washed from her old superstitions,..not yet wrought off from the spirit of bondage. 1655 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. I. iii. 56 Glauco..had..aimed at some great office in the Common-wealth, not to be wrought off from this fancy.., untill adrest by some friends to Socrates, who made him acknowledge his own errour. 1702 W. Nicolson Let. to Dr. Kennet 28 I am strangely harden'd and impenitent in this Matter, and not to be wrought off from any of my Opinions. †5. transitive. To make, create, produce. Obsolete. ΘΠ society > occupation and work > industry > manufacture or production > manufacture or produce [verb (transitive)] i-wurchec888 makeeOE workOE dighta1175 outworka1325 forge1382 tiffa1400 fabricate1598 elaborate1611 produce1612 manufacture1648 to work off1653 output1858 productionize1939 the world > existence and causation > creation > [verb (transitive)] > produce or bring forth > with ease, speed, or success, or in large quantities whip1611 to work off1653 to hit off1700 dispatchc1710 to throw off1724 to run off1759 to turn off1825 to turn out1847 to run out1872 to churn out1912 proliferate1912 slug1925 whomp1955 gurgitate1963 1653 W. Harvey tr. Seneca in W. Harvey Anat. Exercitations Pref. sig. a8^v Virgils face is his Idea, and the Exemplar of his future designe: now that which the Artist takes from this Idea, and worketh off [L. operi suo imposuit], is the Picture. 1695–6 Act 7 & 8 Will. III c. 20 §3 A..profitable Invention..for the..more speedy..knitting of..Stockings..whereby great Quantities are wrought off in a little tyme. 1718 W. Melmoth Let. 10 Mar. in Lett. Several Subj. (1749) II. lxii. 118 I am willing enough to join with you in thinking, that they [sc. the souls of both sexes] maybe wrought off from different models. 1774 J. Granger Suppl. to Biogr. Hist. Eng. 271 The characteristic head of Henry VII..., which is unquestionably a cast from a mould wrought off from that politic prince's face. 6. colloquial. a. transitive. To dispose of or pass off, esp. by fraud, trickery, or misrepresentation; to palm off. Also: to perpetrate (a swindle, scheme, etc.). Chiefly with on. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > defrauding or swindling > perpetrate (a swindle) [verb (transitive)] nunclea1676 to cook up1686 plant1811 to work off1813 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > treat fraudulently, cheat [verb (transitive)] > dispose of fraudulently put1603 to bob off1605 to put off1612 impose1650 palm1679 sham1681 cog1721 slur1749 pawn1763 to play off1768 to pass off1799 to work off1813 to stall off1819 to fob off1894 1813 M. L. Weems Let. in Ford's M. L. Weems: Wks. & Ways (1929) III. 92 The Maps..may be work [ed] off and in time to give you bank interest. 1869 Galaxy Sept. 353 Thieves use fences to ‘work off’ stolen goods. 1884 R. Kipling Let. 21 Nov. in C. E. Carrington R. Kipling (1955) iv. 58 I've been writing a story... I'm trying to work it off on some alien paper to get myself pice thereby. 1891 N. Gould Double Event xvi. 112 A nice little swindle you worked off on me that time. 1900 ‘M. Twain’ in N.Y. Times 7 July (Sat. Review Bks. & Art Suppl.) 461/3 He has not written as many plays as I have, but he has had that God-given talent, which I lack, of working them off on the manager. 1948 V. Palmer Golconda viii. 58 Corney had been skiting about his claim for months, and everyone knew it was a duffer, but he hung on in the hope of working it off on someone. b. transitive. reflexive. To pass oneself off as someone else. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > pretend, dissemble [verb (reflexive)] feign1297 abuse?a1439 counterfeit1610 personate1710 to pass off1770 to hold out1829 to work off1894 1894 Railroad Trainmen's Jrnl. Dec. 1140/2 He was trying to work himself off as a Trainman. 1897 ‘O. Thanet’ Missionary Sheriff 7 The lightning-rods ain't in it with this last scheme—working his self off as a Methodist parson. 1908 G. B. McCutcheon Husbands of Edith 101 You are the alleged sister of the woman who is working herself off as Mrs. Medcroft. †7. transitive. colloquial. To put to death; to hang. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > hanging > hang [verb (transitive)] hangc1000 anhangOE forhangc1300 to loll up1377 gallowa1400 twitchc1450 titc1480 truss1536 beswinga1566 trine1567 to turn over1570 to turn off1581 to turn (a person) on the toe1594 to stretch1595 derrick1600 underhang1603 halter1616 staba1661 noose1664 alexander1666 nub1673 ketch1681 tuck1699 gibbet1726 string1728 scrag1756 to hang up1771 crap1773 patibulate1811 strap1815 swing1816 croak1823 yardarm1829 to work off1841 suspercollatea1863 dangle1887 1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge lxiii. 304 He was ready for working off; such being the case, he considered it their duty, as a civilised and enlightened crowd, to work him off. 1849 H. A. Wise Los Gringos xix. 116 Soon after, they were properly worked off, and swung, dangling, lifeless figures. 1909 Canada Law Jrnl. 45 469 An executioner..attempted to shew how a victim was ‘worked off’. extracted from workv. < as lemmas
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