单词 | well enough |
释义 | > as lemmaswell enough b. well enough (in early use also †enough well): sufficiently well, adequately.In the 16th cent. occasionally written as one word. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > [adverb] enougheOE well enoughOE enowc1300 fairc1300 suffisantlya1340 enoughly1340 meeta1350 sufficientlyc1380 duly1393 competentlyc1440 sufficient1509 'nougha1618 adequately1639 nuff1778 sufficingly1821 OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 1st Ser. (Royal) (1997) xix. 330 Genoh wel wat god hu hit getimað on þære fandunge. lOE King Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Bodl.) (2009) I. xiii. 264 Ic ongite þæt..þu genoh wel understenst þæt ic þe to sprece. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 1652 Forr witt. & skill iss wel inoh, Þurrh salltess smacc bitacnedd. c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) 707 (MED) Hise ship he greyþede wel inow, He dede it tere, an ful wel pike, Þat it ne doutede sond ne krike. a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) v. l. 5010 And thanne him thoghte wel ynouh, It was fantosme. c1450 Alphabet of Tales (1904) I. 215 When sho saw þis maister of þe knyghtis, sho knew hym well enogh & he hur. 1485 Malory's Morte Darthur (Caxton) xxi. i. sig. ddiij And by cause of hyr fayre speche Syr Mordred trusted hyr wel ynough. a1500 (?c1450) Merlin iv. 68 And these othir tymes I parceyved it wele I-nough. 1579 J. Stubbs Discouerie Gaping Gulf sig. D7 Which mought wel ynough be the cause why the Pope decked hym with hys title of most christian king. 1585 R. Parsons Christian Directorie Pref. 4 The vulgar translation is known welinough. 1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. xxx. 551 But the Rabbines saw wellynough that the miracles of Iesus could not be denyed. 1631 J. Shirley Schoole of Complement v. i. 68 He gaue me two or three kicks, which I deseru'd well enough. 1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 25 For which the Winds served them well enough, though full in our Teeth. 1711 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 11 Jan. (1948) I. 162 The scheme..would have done well enough in good hands. 1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison I. xvii. 119 They liked not the humour he seemed to be in well enough to comply with his request. 1831 T. Hood in Comic Ann. (ed. 2) 32 Time was I liked a cheesecake well enough. 1880 G. Sims in Weekly Disp. 23 May 12/1 It is thieves' patter, but someone in the crowd understands it well enough and answers him. 1907 W. De Morgan Alice-for-Short xxxii. 332 She knew well enough that the unheard portions of the conversation were worse than what had reached her ears. 1999 G. Kissick Winter in Volcano (2000) xxiv. 231 I like her well enough. She's a good lookin' babe. 2000 D. Ginsberg Waiting xi. 283 It was a rough patch, I assumed. He'd done well enough the year before and he was bound to snap out of it. < as lemmas |
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