单词 | whigging |
释义 | † Whiggingn. Obsolete. 1. The action of behaving like a Whig or acting in a Whiggish manner; the practice of Whig politics. ΚΠ 1682 J. Banks Vertue Betray'd Epil. sig. L4v Here's such a Rout with Whigging and with Torying, That you neglect your dear-lov'd sin of Whoring. 1816 W. Scott Old Mortality vii, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. IV. 141 I think he will hardly neglect the parade, or go a whigging a second time. 1857 Morning Chron. 22 Apr. 7/6 I also leave my late brother's watch to my brother S., exhorting him a thousand times to give up whigging and radicalism. 1880 Rocky Mountain News (Denver) 19 Feb. 4/2 From the material of whigging the present republican party was welded together. 2. The action of imbuing someone or something with the principles of the Whigs or Whig Party; conversion to the Whig cause. ΚΠ 1695 in C. Mackay Jacobite Songs (1861) 43 Say, was it foul, or was it fair, To come a hunder mile and mair, For to ding out my daddy's heir, And dash him wi' the whiggin o't. 1708 Aesop at Oxf. 76 Two Sisters, who their own Downfals are digging, And set up most enormously for Whigging. 1892 Standard 4 May 3/3 I am quite satisfied to leave him to the whigging of Sir Henry James. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2022). < n.1682 |
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