| 释义 |
otherguess, a. Now only colloq.|ˈʌðəgɛs|
[A phonetic reduction of othergets from prec., spelt after guess.]
Of another kind or sort; = prec. B.
1632J. Hayward tr. Biondi's Eromena 55 To place you elsewhere in an other-ghesse shape. 1661Boyle Style of Script. 125, I have an other-guesse Acquiescence in his Decisions. 1748Smollett Rod. Rand. xxxii, If your kinsman, Lieutenant Bowling, had been here, we should have had other-guess work. 1785H. Walpole Lett., to C'tess Ossory 16 Jan., We had other guess winters in my time. 1826Scott Woodst. xxii, The riding-suit..hath set him off in other⁓guess fashion. 1897Pall Mall Mag. June 231 It was otherguess work with Bellamy. |