| 单词 | to sport a nescio |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto sport a nescio A claim not to know; an utterance of ‘Nescio’ (‘I do not know’). Frequently in to sport a nescio. Cf. scio n.1 ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > [noun] unwisdomc825 nutelnessa1200 ignorance?c1225 uncunningc1290 uncunnessa1300 unwittingnessa1300 unknowledging1357 lewdness1362 unsciencec1374 mislearninga1382 simplenessa1382 unknowinga1382 ignorancec1384 unwittingc1384 simplessec1391 rudenessc1400 unweeting14.. lewdhead1401 misknowing?a1425 simplicityc1450 unknowledge1470 discognisancec1475 unknowingness1486 non-knowledge1503 ignorancy1526 simplehead1543 unlearnedness1555 ignoration1563 rusticity1571 ignorantness1574 ignoring1578 inscience1578 ignoramus1583 ingramness1589 lack-learning1590 idiotism1598 ignoramus1598 idiocy1605 nesciencea1625 nescio1637 inerudition1685 unawareness1847 agnosia1879 moronism1922 cluelessness1960 1637 N. Whiting Le Hore di Recreatione p. iii Let not your slights or nescio's (thogh most iust) Condemne my muse to bee en-seild with dust. a1670 J. Hacket Abp. Williams (1693) ii. 94 But as our Cambridge term is, he was staid with nescio's. 1803 Gradus ad Cantabrigiam 91 To sport a Nescio, to shake the head, a signal that there is nothing in it... To sport a Nescio is very common with those who would, nevertheless, be thought very knowing. 1808 Satirist 2 147 The cursedest bore—being forced to sport a nescio at old port. 1823 P. Egan Grose's Class Dict. Vulgar Tongue (at cited word) He sports a Nescio; he pretends not to understand any thing. 1889 J. S. Farmer Americanisms 388/1 Nescio. The employment of this word by American thieves is, perhaps, one of the most curious instances of a purely Latin word being incorporated into their jargon. A literal translation..exactly gives its cant meaning.—No! I don't know; can't say. < as lemmas |
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