| 单词 | to stalk it |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto stalk it a. intransitive. To walk with stiff, high, measured steps, like a long-legged bird. Usually with disparaging notion, implying haughtiness, sullenness, indifference to one's surroundings, or the like. Also †to stalk it.In dialect use, the predominant notion is often that of ungainliness. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > walk, tread, or step [verb (intransitive)] > in stately or affected manner prancea1398 jeta1400 prankc1450 strut1518 stalk1530 jotc1560 brank1568 piaffe1593 strit1597 swagger1600 stretch1619 prig1623 flutter1690 prink1696 jut1763 strunt1789 straddle1802 major1814 cakewalk1890 sashay1968 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 732/1 I stalke, I go softly and make great strides, je vas a grans pas. He stalketh lyke a crane. a1547 J. Redford Moral Play Wit & Sci. (1848) 8 Yt is he playne That thus bold doth make hym Wythowt my lycence To stalke by my doore. 1576 G. Gascoigne Steele Glas Epil. 21 The elder sorte, go stately stalking on. 1591 H. Smith Pride Nabuchadnezzar 4 Then was hee stalking in his galleries, and thinking what sinne should be next. 1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 491 Who stalking on high upon stilts, apply their mindes, to grasing, fishing, and fowling. 1612 Mr. King tr. Benvenuto Passenger i. iv. 317 He replied that it was they, which there stalke it,..with Ruffes, and blacke apparrell. 1616 B. Jonson Epicœne iv. i, in Wks. I. 566 Others, that will stalke i' their gait like an Estrich. View more context for this quotation 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iv. 402 About them round A Lion now he [sc. Satan] stalkes with fierie glare. View more context for this quotation a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1645 (1955) II. 446 The Noblemen stalking with their Ladys on Choppines. 1695 R. Blackmore Prince Arthur viii. 237 Like one of Anak's mighty Sons he stalk'd. 1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson iii. x. 410 A soldier of unusual size..stalkt about on the parapet. 1771 J. Beattie Minstrel: Bk. 1st xli. 21 The whistling plowman stalks afield. 1787 F. Grose Provinc. Gloss. L 3 b Cambridgeshire camels... Some have supposed this term to have originated from the Fen-men, stalking through the marshes on their stilts. 1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering I. viii. 115 The Dominie..might be seen stalking about with a mathematical problem in his head, and his eye upon a child of five years old. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xiii. 343 It was remembered but too well how the dragoons had stalked into the peasant's cottage, cursing and damning him, themselves, and each other at every second word. 1862 C. C. Robinson Dial. Leeds & Neighbourhood 421 Stauk, to walk in an awkward manner, unmindful of appearances. 1906 F. Treves Highways & Byways Dorset xi. 169 Its arched doorway, where pikemen stalked on guard. < as lemmas |
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