单词 | what mister ——? |
释义 | > as lemmaswhat mister ——? b. A type, class, or kind of ——. Now only in interrogative or indefinite clauses, as what mister ——? Cf. manner n. 1. Now English regional (Yorkshire) (rare). [The development of sense appears to have been from phrases like all mister men , what mister man , such a mister man (in sense 4a), which were reanalysed as ‘men of all misters’, ‘a man of what mister’, ‘a man of such a mister’, and subsequently interpreted as meaning ‘men of all classes’, ‘a man of what (such a) class or kind’, ‘what kind of a man’, etc. The idiom occurs as an archaism in Spenser and other writers of the early modern period, from whom it was adopted (but with misapprehension of its meaning) by Pope and Scott.] ΚΠ a1325 (c1280) Southern Passion (Pepys 2344) (1927) 506 (MED) Of eche muster men some sholde ysaued beo. c1330 Seven Sages (Auch.) (1933) 1326 Al þi ken schal witen and sen, What mester womman þon hauest iben. c1385 G. Chaucer Knight's Tale 1710 But telleth me what myster men ye been. a1425 (?a1400) G. Chaucer Romaunt Rose (Hunterian) 6332 Now am I maister, now scoler, Now monk, now chanoun, now baily; Whatever myster man am I. c1450 tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Lyfe Manhode (Cambr.) (1869) 63 (MED) Ayens suich a mister man it is good to haue suich a gorgeer. a1500 (c1400) St. Erkenwald (1977) 60 Mony a mesters-mon of maners dyverse. c1530 Court of Love 227 Seeing full sundry peple in the place, And mister folk. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. ix. sig. H8 To weet, what mister wight was so dismayd. 1593 M. Drayton Idea vii. sig. G4 These mister artes been better fitting thee. 1620 F. Quarles Feast for Wormes ii. sig. Dv What mister word is that? 1728 A. Pope Dunciad iii. 179 Right well mine eyes arede that myster wight. 1814 W. Scott Waverley I. ix. 117 Sometimes this mister wight held his hands clasped over his head. View more context for this quotation 1872 Yorks. Mag. 2 113/2 In Yorkshire, ‘what mister?’ means what kind. < as lemmas |
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