| 释义 |
wounds, int. Obs. exc. arch.|waʊndz|
Also 9 wouns; 7–8 wauns, 8 waund(s; dial. 8–9 wuns.
[pl. of wound: see wound n. 1 c.]
= God's wounds; used as an oath or asseveration.
α1610Dekker Shoemaker's Holiday D 1, Wounds then farewell. 1753Foote Englishm. Paris i. 14 But Wounds how the Powder flew about. 1801G. Colman Poor Gentl. i. i. 4 Wouns! let me come at him. 1820Keats Cap & Bells lxii, ‘Wounds! how they shout!’ said Hum. 1822Scott Nigel ix, Wouns! man, we'll stuff his stomach with English land.
β1694Echard Plautus 14 Waunds! I ha'nt let fly sure. 1706Farquhar Recruit. Officer i. i, Wauns! I wish again that my Wife lay there. 1728Cibber & Vanbr. Provok'd Husb. iv. 65 Waund, he'll storm any thing. Ibid. 68 Waunds! you have had one hundred this Morning. 1796T. Morton Way to get Married ii. ii. (1800) 33 Clem. Who's at the door? Serv. Wauns I forgot. It be maister Dashall fra Lunnon.
γc1746J. Collier (Tim Bobbin) View Lanc. Dial. Reader, Wks. (1862) p. xxxiv, Wuns eigh; theawrt likt' strowll ogen. 1843T. Wilson Pitman's Pay 57 ‘Wuns’, says aw, ‘this rough beginnin’..freightens me’. |