单词 | to spoil rotten |
释义 | > as lemmasto spoil rotten colloquial. As an intensifier. To an extreme degree; thoroughly, totally. to spoil rotten: to spoil or indulge a person excessively. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > completeness > [adverb] > completely or thoroughly welleOE furtherlyc1175 through and through?1316 perfectlya1400 radically?a1425 roundly?a1425 substantiallya1425 perfectc1425 thoroughly1442 substantiallyc1449 throughlya1450 naitlyc1450 through1472 surely?a1475 cleanc1475 through stitch1573 fundamentally1587 down1616 perfectedly1692 minutely1796 homea1825 good1834 rotten1840 out1971 full on1979 1840 H. J. Battle of Stillwater ii. i, in America's Lost Plays (1941) XIV. 123 If they hedn't burnt up the house and come so rotten nigh killin' of old Adam Cotton. 1880 ‘M. Twain’ Tramp Abroad xxiii. 226 I'm most rotten certain 'bout that. 1918 Lyceum Dec. 16/1 Being on somebody's pedestal every evening..he gets, in the language of a fellow's wife, ‘spoiled rotten’. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses iii. xviii. [Penelope] 714 It was rotten cold too that winter. 1964 Daily Mail 14 Dec. 1/3 The other girls sent me up rotten when they heard about my date. 1996 Sugar June 3/2 You fancy him rotten—now learn how to nab him. 2005 R. Bowen Evan Blessed xxviii. 238 They spoil her rotten. Give her everything she wants, they do. Not like my mum. < as lemmas |
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