| 释义 |
m'
= my poss. adj.
1712[see my poss. adj. 1 β]. 1837J. F. Cooper England II. xii. 51, I take it, the polite way of pronouncing this word is by a sort of elision—as m'horse, m'dog, m'gun. Ibid., I think more noble peers, however, said ‘me lurds’, than ‘m' lurds’. 1852Dickens Bleak Ho. (1853) i. 4 ‘Mr. Tangle,’ says the Lord High Chancellor... ‘Mlud,’ says Mr. Tangle. 1907R. Brooke Let. 12 Aug. (1968) 99 M'uncle is changing his house or face or wife or something. 1908[see house n.1 4 c]. 1914[see æsthete]. 1942G. Greene Brit. Dramatists 33 Lady Teazle ‘m'ludding’ and flirting a fan. 1945E. Waugh Brideshead Revisited i. ii. 47 A series of harrowing interviews with m'tutor. 1967Guardian 31 July 5/1, I remember him playing the part of a prosecuting counsel..full of patronising ‘M'luds’. 1968A. Diment Gt. Spy Race vii. 103 Why, chappie in m'tutors, doing four years in the Scrubs. 1970O. Norton Dead on Prediction v. 84 Not evidence, m'dear. Is it? 1972J. Porter Meddler & her Murder iii. 39 Allow me to carry the tray for you, Eve, m'dear. |