| 单词 | all ahoo |
| 释义 | > as lemmasall ahoo 2. Askew, awry; crookedly, lopsidedly. Chiefly in all ahoo. Cf. huh n. regional in later use. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > misshapenness > [adverb] > crookedly ahoo?a1200 crookedlyc1374 awry1487 β. γ. 1838 W. Holloway Gen. Dict. Provincialisms Ahuh, adv. awry; aslant.1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words I. 9 ‘You've put your shawl on all ahuh;’ ‘That rick stands all ahuh,’ are very common expressions.1952 F. C. Brown Coll. N. Carolina Folklore I. 514 Ahoo, awry—Chapel Hill.1968 H. Orton & M. F. Wakelin Surv. Eng. Dial. IV. iii. 1044 A picture not hanging straight, is hanging..[Berkshire] all ahuh.?a1200 (?OE) Peri Didaxeon (1896) 27 Sa syna teoþ fram þan cynnbane..and þane muþ awoh breddad. all ahoo Chiefly Nautical and regional. In predicative use: crooked, lopsided; askew, awry; disordered. Chiefly in all ahoo. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > disorder > [adjective] troublec1374 misorderlya1568 unorderly1578 luxate1597 incomposed1608 methodless1609 tumultuary1609 unordered1621 disorderly1632 higgledy-piggledy1676 rantum-scantum1695 throughother1720 rough and tumble1818 ramshackle1820 skimble-skamble1826 ahoo1828 disordinate1840 disorganic1841 ramshackly1883 rantum-scootum1885 tumultuarious1895 ragtime1917 inchoate1922 higgledya1953 shambolic1970 the world > space > shape > misshapenness > [adjective] > crooked wough862 crumba1100 wrongc1175 crooked?c1225 crochedc1300 forcrookedc1305 miscrookeda1398 crumpleda1400 kirkeda1425 camshoch1513 crooken1589 awry1728 thraward1814 ajee1816 ahoo1828 crinkly-crankly1850 unstraight1860 cockeye1891 cockeyed1899 crookedy1907 1828 Night Watch II. 85 His head, however, was all ahoo, and topped to port. 1883 United Service Feb. 208 He's all ahoo, like a midshipman's kit. 1893 G. E. Dartnell & E. H. Goddard Gloss. Words Wilts. All-a-hoh, all awry..; also All-a-huh, unevenly balanced, lop-sided... ‘That load o' carn be aal-a-hoh.’ 1896 S. O. Addy in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1898) I. 30/1 [West Yorkshire] [Of a faulty knife] Ah, I see, it's all awow. 1896 W. W. Skeat in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1898) I. 30/1 Why, 'tis all-a-hoh like a dog's hind-leg [in printing, of matter made up ‘out of the straight’]. 1899 B. W. Green Word-bk. Virginia Folk-speech 39 Ahoo, ahuh. Awry; when anything is out of perpendicular; or lopsided; or a wheel runs not true, it is said to be ahoo, ‘all ahoo’. 1937 Essex Rev. 46 32 The ramshackle gait of a lolloping hare, all ahuh. 2004 C. Adrian in McSweeney's Q. Concern No. 14. 23 I can see him perfectly with my eyes still closed: his hair all ahoo. 2015 @AMinorMuddle 10 May in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) A somewhat muddly time being had. Decorators due tomorrow. House all ahoo. < as lemmas |
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