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单词 wipe a person's nose
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to wipe a person's nose
(b) to wipe a person's nose: to cheat or dupe a person; (with of) to defraud a person of. Obsolete. [Compare classical Latin ēmungere to wipe the nose, to trick, swindle, defraud (chiefly in Plautus and Terence: see emunge v.).]
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > think or behave contemptuously [verb (intransitive)]
skirpc1175
to make it quainta1393
flout1575
to wipe a person's nose1577
the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > defrauding or swindling > defraud or swindle [verb (intransitive)]
to pull a finchc1386
to bore a person's nose?1577
to wipe a person's nose1577
verse1591
lurch1593
to grope a gull1594
cheat1647
to lick (another's) fingers1656
to live upon the shark1694
sharp1709
fineer1765
to pluck a pigeon1769
swindle1769
to run a game1894
to sell (a person) a pup1901
scam1963
society > leisure > sport > winning, losing, or scoring > win, lose, or score [verb (intransitive)] > win > defeat someone
to wipe a person's nose1577
to wipe a person's eye1823
the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > defrauding or swindling > perpetrate (a swindle) [verb (transitive)] > defraud or swindle > out of something
beguile1394
wrongc1484
delude1493
licka1500
to wipe a person's nose1577
uncle1585
cheat1597
cozen1602
to bob of1605
to bob out of1605
gull1612
foola1616
to set in the nick1616
to worm (a person) out of1617
shuffle1627
to baffle out of1652
chouse1654
trepan1662
bubble1668
trick1698
to bamboozle out of1705
fling1749
jockey1772
swindle1780
twiddle1825
to diddle out of1829
nig1829
to chisel out of1848
to beat out1851
nobble1852
duff1863
flim-flam1890
1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 323/2 Hee deuised a shifte howe to wype the Byshoppes nose of some of his Golde.
1598 R. Bernard tr. Terence Eunuch i. i, in Terence in Eng. 115 The very destruction of our substance: who wipes our noses of all that we should have.
1602 N. Breton Packet of Lett. in Wks. (1879) II. 23 Some body shall wipe their nose for their knauery.
1630 tr. G. Botero Relations Famous Kingdomes World (rev. ed.) 362 Many thinke his nose will be wiped of it.
1667 S. Pepys Diary 17 July (1974) VIII. 343 That..the King [might] own a marriage before his contract..with the Queene, and so wipe their noses of the Crown.
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew at Wipe He Wipt his Nose, c. he gull'd him.
1709 C. Cibber Rival Fools i. 3 I durst lay my Life thou wipest this foolish Knight's Nose of his Mistress at last.
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to wipe a person's nose
a. to wipe a person's nose: (a) see nose n. Phrases 1a, Phrases 1a(b) (cf. sense 5 above); occasionally, to treat with contempt or indignity; (b) in modern use = 1d (a).
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > cheat, swindle [phrase]
to pull a finchc1386
to wipe a person's nosea1475
to take (a person) at advantage(s)1523
to play fast and loose1557
to play false1576
to joint a person's nose of?1577
to make a cousin of1580
to sell smoke1589
munge1660
to sell (a person) a packet1886
to beat the count1897
to sell (a person) a pup1901
to hand (someone) a lemon1906
to sell (someone) a bill of goods1927
a1475 ( Libel Eng. Policy (Vitell.) 176 Thus they wold..Wypen our nose with our owne sleve.
1568 V. Skinner tr. R. González de Montes Discouery Inquisition of Spayne f. 10 The party must..seeke to wipe their noses by shaping them a shorte aunswere.
1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 323/2 Hee deuised a shifte howe to wype the Byshoppes nose of some of his Golde.
1598 R. Bernard tr. Terence Eunuch i. i, in Terence in Eng. 115 The very destruction of our substance: who wipes our noses of all that we should have.
1599–1600 Minutes Archdeaconry of Colchester Jan. lf. 247 (MS.) Her husband..dyd saye that ‘I will wype the noses of you all’.
1842 Asiatic Jrnl. & Monthly Reg. 37 i. 235 He once or twice, to borrow a not very delicate sporting phrase, ‘wiped my nose’ in a very off-hand manner.
1852 R. S. Surtees Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour xi. lviii. 330 ‘I could have wiped your nose,’ exclaimed Mr. Sponge, covering the hare with a hedge-stake placed to his shoulder like a gun.
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