单词 | yarning |
释义 | > as lemmasˈyarning ˈyarning n. and adj. Π 1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. (at cited word) Yarning or spinning a yarn, signifying to relate their various adventures, exploits, and escapes to each other. 1850 G. Cupples Green Hand i. 8/2 Somehow or another I was al'ays a yarning sort of a customer. 1857 St. Leonard's Station Diary 14 May in L. R. C. MacFarlane Amuri (1946) iii. 125 Hanging round the station, yarning and sleeping. 1888 W. C. Russell Death Ship vii We speedily fell to yarning. 1916 Blackwood's Mag. Apr. 493/1 Yarning seems to fill in the few leisure moments of the day. 1958 L. Durrell Balthazar ii. 37 We were sitting at a café yarning. < as lemmas |
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