单词 | woke up |
释义 | woke upadj. U.S. regional and nonstandard (chiefly in African-American usage). Awake; that has not gone to sleep or has been woken up . Also figurative and in figurative context: in a state of awareness; alert, well-informed; (also) energized, enthused. Cf. woke adj.2In quot. 1871 representing the speech of a child. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > state of being awake > [adjective] awakea1300 wake1414 unsleeping1614 woke up1871 woke1891 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > knowledge, what is known > [adjective] > knowledgeable, well-informed knowinga1398 well-knowingc1425 scientc1475 advertised1481 well-informeda1500 scientive1575 callent1656 fly1811 knowledgeable1825 factful1853 dungeonable1855 knowful1855 woke up1871 in the know1883 to be jerry1908 hipped1920 wised-up1926 clueful1943 genned-up1945 clued (up)1948 1871 E. D. Kendall Judge's Sons ix. 110 I'd put it [sc. a star] under ve pillow... But I guess you'd have to keep woke up, or else it would creep out. 1883 ‘H. Castlemon’ Don Gordon's Shooting-box xvii. 345 If me an' Dan would only wake up an' stay woke up, we'd get along well enough. 1903 Cincinnati Enq. 6 June 13/4 He'd a stayed awake all night tellin how he was goin' to fix them bees, if he could 'a' got anybody to stay woke up to listen to him. 1943 Atlantic Monthly Mar. 59/2 [As] a Negro United Mine Workers official in West Virginia told me in 1940: ‘Let me tell you, buddy. Waking up is a damn sight harder than going to sleep, but we'll stay woke up longer.’ 1968 H. Lit Unbelievable Dict. Hip Words 1 All woke up, educated, well-informed; you dig the scene, you've been hipped and you know what's happening. 1997 Hamilton (Ont.) Spectator (Nexis) 2 Apr. a12 This doesn't mean I'll stop working... It's like the preacher once told me, work is good, it keeps you woke up. 2013 @somufunishere 30 June in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) This is the match for which I have remained woke up the whole night. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.1871 |
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