| 释义 |
▪ I. yock, n. (and v.) Theatr. slang (chiefly U.S.).|jɒk|
Also yok.
[Cf. Eng. dial. yocha to laugh.]
A laugh. Also as v. intr. (and quasi-trans.).
1938H. M. Alexander Strip Tease 83 ‘Listen to 'em yock out there,’ says the comic... ‘Yock’ is a belly laugh. 1949N.Y. Times 4 Sept. 7/6 It makes me furious when I have a corny line and it gets a yock. 1951New Yorker 12 May 32/3 There'd be Don, yockin' it up like crazy,..he's so hysterical with loyalty laughter. 1957S. J. Perelman Road to Miltown 73 Brother, I've heard some dillies in my day, but that's the payoff... What a yock this'll give the mob at Sardi's! 1957Wodehouse Over Seventy xiii. 134 A few gay observations on the weather and he is ready for the big yoks. 1961Daily Mail 4 Mar. 8 ‘I'm right in saying that you wouldn't do this to me, madam?’ asked the colonel... The producer said, ‘You'd have got a helpful yok from the audience there, colonel.’ 1965New Yorker 31 July 56/3 A chuckle or even a short, muted yock is acceptable from time to time. 1973Publishers Weekly 26 Feb. 50/1 (Advt.), An hilarious collection of jokes, rhymes, riddles, tongue twisters, teasers and other assorted high-flying nonsense. The riddles and illustrations sprinkled throughout this page give just a brief taste of this yok-filled book. 1975New Yorker 2 June 36/3 ‘Maybe you were a king in Babylon and I was a Christian slave,’ I chaffed him. ‘But enough with the yocks.’
▪ II. yock, yocke
obs. forms of yoke. |