| 释义 |
▪ I. † scuse, n. Obs.
Also 6 skuse, 7 schuce.
Aphetic form of excuse n.
1523Ld. Berners Froissart I. ccclxiii. 52 So the knight coude make no scuse. a1553Udall Roister D. v. ii, Better (they say) a badde scuse, than none. 1592Greene Disput. 8 Tis as hard to find a Hare without a Muse, as a woman without a scuse. a1634Chapman Alphonsus iii. (1654) 35 If all be well with us, that schuce shall serve.
▪ II. scuse, v.|skjuːz|
Also 6 scowse, skewse, skuse, 9– 'scuse.
Aphetic form of excuse v. Now chiefly in representations of colloq. speech, esp. in form 'scuse.
1491Caxton Vitas Patr. (W. de W. 1495) ii. 186 They that had done it scused them. 1532More Confut. Tindale Wks. 577/2 To skewse hym and keepe hym from beatynge. 1556Chron. Grey Friars (Camden) 70 He wolde have gevyne moch to a be scowsyd. 1594R. C[arew] Tasso (1881) 110 Ile you to Captaine skuse. c1611Chapman Iliad xxiv. 250 Would to heauen, that all the abiect blood, In all your veines, had Hector scusde. 1830Galt Lawrie T. iii. ix. (1849) 114 The gentleman will ‘scuse me’. 1864Dickens Mut. Fr. (1865) I. 231 'Scuse me, Lawyer Lightwood, it's a part of the truth. 1887T. E. Brown Doctor 22 'Scuse me, your honour. 1902[see excuse v. 6 b]. 1922Joyce Ulysses 418 All poppycock, you'll scuse me saying. 1971G. Sims Dead Hand i. iv. 46 Scuse fingers. |