| 单词 | to trump up |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto trump up 5. to trump up (trans.). extracted from trumpv.3ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > evasive deception, shiftiness > evade [verb (transitive)] > put off pop1530 to put off1569 to fode forth (also occasionally forward, off, on, out)1591 to shift offc1592 foist1598 to fob off1600 fub1600 to shuffle off1604 doffa1616 jig1633 to trump upa1640 whiffle1654 to fool off1664 sham1682 drill1752 to set off1768 to put by1779 jilt1782 palm1822 stall1829 job1872 to give (a person) the go-around1925 a1640 P. Massinger & J. Fletcher Very Woman ii. iii. 200 in P. Massinger 3 New Playes (1655) Hang honesty; Trump me not up with honesty. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > statement > assertion without proof > [verb (transitive)] ledgea1300 vouch1390 allege?a1400 suppose1411 pretendc1449 to-layc1450 reckonc1480 compare1536 obtend1573 make1593 represent1651 to trump up1697 1697 T. Smith in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eminent Literary Men (1843) (Camden) 252 When the Benedictine Monks were so busy to trump up old charters of exemption and priveleges. 1701 Laconics (new ed.) iii. 101 The Cavaliers..us'd to Trump up the 13th of the Romans upon the Parliament, the Parliament trump'd it upon the Army. 1710 S. Palmer Moral Ess. Prov. 333 Necessity is trump'd up for a plea. 1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 507. ¶2 To husband a Lie, and trump it up in some extraordinary Emergency. 1772 Town & Country Mag. 128 B[olland] trumped up an imaginary debt against him. c. To get up or devise in an unscrupulous way; to forge, fabricate, invent. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > treat fraudulently, cheat [verb (transitive)] > introduce fraudulently shuffle1565 cog1570 foista1640 foba1652 to trump up1695 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > false assertion > assert falsely [verb (transitive)] > devise unscrupulously cook1636 sham1679 to cook up1686 to trump upa1774 fake1810 1695 W. W. Novum Lumen Chirurgicum Extinctum 64 His Pouder being..disgraced, he was obliged to trump up another Medicine to supply its Defect. 1726 C. D'Anvers Craftsman No. 3 (1727) 22 They..forewarn us to beware of impostures trumpt up in imitation of their approved remedies. a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature (1834) II. 328 Their very existence is mere hypothesis, trumped up to serve a turn. 1794 W. Godwin Caleb Williams III. xi. 191 If..those servants could trump up such accusations. 1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas II. iv. vii. 167 You have trumped up a cock and bull story. 1885 W. D. Howells Rise Silas Lapham viii She had not..courage to confess..why she had come, but trumped up an excuse. < as lemmas |
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