| 释义 |
ˈspuffle, v. E. Angl. dial.
[Imitative.]
1. intr. To fuss or bustle; to be in a flurry or in breathless haste.
a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia 321 I saw Mr. A. spuffling along. 1862Borrow Wales xix, He spuffled and sputtered in a most extraordinary manner. 1869Spectator 25 Dec. 1518 When a Suffolk man means to tell his friend that he is making..too much fuss about anything,..he says quietly, ‘Now don't spuffle’.
2. trans. To utter thickly or indistinctly.
1861Temple Bar III. 292 He finds her with her mouth crammed full of food, and incapable of spuffling out a word.
Hence ˈspuffling vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1893H. T. Cozens-Hardy Brd. Norf. 30, I am not sure whether spuffling is a practice peculiar to East Anglia. 1897W. Rye Norfolk Songs 56 His spuffling overbearing ways did him harm. |