| 单词 | to whoop up |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto whoop up to whoop up Originally U.S. extracted from whoopv.ΚΠ 1814 Virginia Argus 16 July The Savage of the howling glen, Re-echoes the dread sound, And whoops up hordes to hunt our men, And deal destruction round. 2. transitive. To arouse enthusiasm for (a person, organization, cause, etc.); to promote or praise enthusiastically; (also) to give a boost to. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [verb (transitive)] echeOE ekec1200 multiplya1275 morea1300 increase13.. vaunce1303 enlargec1380 augmenta1400 accrease1402 alargea1425 amply?a1425 great?1440 hainc1440 creasec1475 grow1481 amplea1500 to get upa1500 improve1509 ampliatea1513 auge1542 over1546 amplify1549 raise1583 grand1602 swell1602 magnoperate1610 greaten1613 accresce1626 aggrandize1638 majoratea1651 adauge1657 protend1659 reinforce1660 examplify1677 pluralize1750 to drive up1817 to whoop up1856 to jack up1884 upbuild1890 steepen1909 up1934 the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > commend or praise [verb (transitive)] > for ulterior purpose puffa1500 bepuff1843 to whoop up1856 boom1879 plug1900 1856 Boston Daily Atlas 24 Nov. Petulant, agaçante, piquant—she whips up the blood—she whoops up all the senses. 1868 Herald (Anderson, Indiana) 17 Sept. Four weeks yet until our Hoosier boys go into action... Whoop 'em up all round. 1885 South Florida Sentinel (Orlando) 5 Aug. 3/3 Whoop up Florida to those Yankees. 1893 ‘M. Twain’ in St. Nicholas Nov. 21/2 It was about a stand-off; so both of them had to whoop up their dangerous adventures, and try to get ahead that way. 1894 Atlanta Constit. 24 Mar. 10/2 Last week he went over into South Carolina and came home hooping up the dispensary laws of that state. 1908 ‘Yeslah’ Tenderfoot S. Calif. iv. 42 These Californians who are eternally hooping up the glorious climate. 1950 Sun (Baltimore) 6 Nov. 3/2 Spokesmen for each party whooped up interest in the outcome. 1969 Manito (Mason County, Illinois) Rev. 19 Mar. 1/2 Both the parents and the students had cheerleaders dressed in full regalia, hooping up the fans. 1970 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 26 Sept. 6/5 All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. 1976 Listener 23 Sept. 375/1 If there was any temptation to whoop the original up into contemporary shape, he resisted it. 1983 Listener 14 July 19/2 It somehow won that year's Prix Italia,..which so immensely whooped me up that I galloped down to Venice to collect. 2008 National Business Rev. (N.Z.) (Nexis) 11 Apr. [He] seldom misses an opportunity for whooping up his organisation's eternal fight against the dishonest capitalist class. 3. to whoop it up. a. transitive. To campaign for someone or something,esp. a politician or political cause, in a vocal or enthusiastic way. ΚΠ 1872 Democratic Pharos (Logansport, Indiana) 2 Oct. Thomas A. Hendricks heads the list—a good and true man. Hoop it up for him to the tune of Five Hundred majority. 1888 Cent. Mag. May 156 His rival is a prominent politician, with an abundance of party workers to ‘whoop it up’ for him. 1951 E. Paul Springtime in Paris (U.K. ed.) ii. 19 I supposed that elsewhere in France there might be as many young enthusiasts whooping it up for De Gaulle. 1954 B. Hecht Child of Cent. iv. 230 Sherwood [Anderson] would be able to whoop it up for me in a half-dozen periodicals which had come to consider his word as artistic law. 2016 CNN Newsroom (transcript of TV programme) (Nexis) 9 Apr. More people are whooping it up for him and more people cast votes for him. b. transitive. colloquial (originally U.S.). To enjoy oneself or celebrate in a noisy way; (also) to stir up political enthusiasm; similarly to whoop things up. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > excitement > public excitement > stir up or maintain public excitement [verb (intransitive)] to make a scene of1804 agitate1828 to raise Cain1840 to whoop things up1873 the mind > emotion > excitement > riotous excitement > behave with riotous excitement [verb (intransitive)] rehayte1526 tear1602 to play up1849 to whoop things up1873 to raise sand1892 to raise (also kick up, play, etc.) merry hell1931 to go ape1955 to go (also drive) bananas1957 society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > [verb (intransitive)] > stir up political enthusiasm to whoop things up1873 agitate1918 society > leisure > social event > a merrymaking or convivial occasion > merrymaking or conviviality > make merry [verb (intransitive)] > noisy or riotous revelc1390 ragea1400 roara1450 jet?1518 tirl on the berry?1520 roist1563 roist1574 revel1580 domineer1592 ranta1616 roister1663 scour1673 tory-rory1685 scheme1738 to run the rig1750 gilravagea1760 splore?a1799 spree1859 to go on the (or a) bend1863 to flare up1869 to whoop it up1873 to paint the town (red)1882 razzle1908 to make whoopee1920 boogie1929 to beat it up1933 ball1946 rave1961 1873 Daily Cairo (Illinois) Bull. 28 Oct. They would find him out at twelve or one o'clock at night, whooping it up with the boys. 1881 Southern Collegian (Washington & Lee Univ.) Apr. 291 S. L. Mestrezar, '70-'71, is, to use our expression, ‘whooping things up’ in his part of the world, which is Uniontown, Pa. 1935 P. G. Wodehouse Luck of Bodkins iii. 37 You didn't by any chance..whoop it up with those mysterious foreign adventuresses who haunt those parts? 1944 Life 28 Feb. 90/2 The Prohibition era, when the blustery beer barons were whooping things up and getting their names in the public prints. 1956 ‘J. Wyndham’ Seeds of Time 136 Thousands of trippers whooping it up with pandemonium for most of the night. 1983 Listener 8 Sept. 24/2 The broadcasting moguls and their groupies whooped it up in Edinburgh and other select watering holes. 2019 Trail (Brit. Columbia) Daily Times (Nexis) 12 Sept. The graduates of 1954 are back together in Trail this week ready to whoop it up for their 65th high school reunion. c. transitive. To create a noisy disturbance. ΚΠ 1875 Fort Wayne (Indiana) Daily Sentinel 26 Mar. [They] were obliged to fork over each a five dollar bank note for disturbing the peace of the city last night, and ‘hooping it up’ with unseemly noise on the street. 1887 T. Stevens Around World on Bicycle I. 11 They simply, in the language of the gold fields, ‘turned themselves loose’, ‘made things hum’, and ‘whooped 'em up’ around the bar-room of their village for..three days. 2019 Balladeer's Blog (Nexis) 30 July Russian Bill and his pal Sandy King often got roaring drunk and rode through Shakespeare whooping it up and shooting their guns in the air. 4. transitive. To increase or raise. Now rare. ΚΠ 1887 Evening Tel. (Dixon, Illinois) 17 Dec. Our new grain firm are hooping up prices; giving us quite a boom here. 1904 Sun (N.Y.) 8 Sept. 10 The bail was reduced to $10,000, but was whooped up to $15,000 when Larry was re-arrested. 1947 Lowell (Mass.) Sun 13 Dec. 7/5 We shall go on whooping up wages, despite the fact that we shall also be whooping up prices. < as lemmas |
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