单词 | absquatulate |
释义 | absquatulatev. humorous (originally and chiefly U.S.). 1. intransitive. To abscond, make off. Also occasionally transitive with it. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (intransitive)] > go away suddenly or hastily fleec825 runOE swervea1225 biwevec1275 skip1338 streekc1380 warpa1400 yerna1400 smoltc1400 stepc1460 to flee (one's) touch?1515 skirr1548 rubc1550 to make awaya1566 lope1575 scuddle1577 scoura1592 to take the start1600 to walk off1604 to break awaya1616 to make off1652 to fly off1667 scuttle1681 whew1684 scamper1687 whistle off1689 brush1699 to buy a brush1699 to take (its, etc.) wing1704 decamp1751 to take (a) French leave1751 morris1765 to rush off1794 to hop the twig1797 to run along1803 scoot1805 to take off1815 speela1818 to cut (also make, take) one's lucky1821 to make (take) tracks (for)1824 absquatulize1829 mosey1829 absquatulate1830 put1834 streak1834 vamoose1834 to put out1835 cut1836 stump it1841 scratch1843 scarper1846 to vamoose the ranch1847 hook1851 shoo1851 slide1859 to cut and run1861 get1861 skedaddle1862 bolt1864 cheese it1866 to do a bunkc1870 to wake snakes1872 bunk1877 nit1882 to pull one's freight1884 fooster1892 to get the (also to) hell out (of)1892 smoke1893 mooch1899 to fly the coop1901 skyhoot1901 shemozzle1902 to light a shuck1905 to beat it1906 pooter1907 to take a run-out powder1909 blow1912 to buzz off1914 to hop it1914 skate1915 beetle1919 scram1928 amscray1931 boogie1940 skidoo1949 bug1950 do a flit1952 to do a scarper1958 to hit, split or take the breeze1959 to do a runner1980 to be (also get, go) ghost1986 1830 Georgia Messenger 15 May Cracker Dictionary... Obsquatulate, to mosey, or to abscond. 1834 S. Smith A. Jackson 36 By golly, if you absquotulate, you are ded before you can say Jack Robinson. 1840 T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker 3rd Ser. ii. 16 Absquotilate it in style, you old skunk,..and show the gentlemen what you can do. 1861 J. Lamont Seasons with Sea-horses xi. 179 He [sc. an old bull-walrus] heard us, and lazily awaking, raised his head and prepared to absquatulate. 1914 G. B. Shaw Fanny's Last Play iii, in Misalliance 217 Dora. Let me absquatulate [making for the door]. Juggins. If you wish to leave without being seen, you had better step into my pantry and leave afterwards. 1968 J. D. Carr Papa Là-bas i. iii. 42 Lives in New Orleans, or used to. Behaved rather oddly... Then, without warning, he absquatulated. 1990 K. Vonnegut Hocus Pocus xxxvii. 262 Some overthrown..dictator who had absquatulated to the USA with his starving nation's treasury. 2. transitive. To send away, dismiss; to put to flight. Now rare. ΚΠ 1844 Fraser's Mag. Sept. 323/1 The twenty millions absquatulated from this country for the far less oppressed and still less deserving niggers. 1846 Forest Hill I. xii. 163 I guess I should like to see the other man who made you cry. If I wouldn't just obsquatulate him, I tell you, I'm a Dutchman! 1887 Fargo (Dakota Territory) Argus 10 Jan. It is rumored that the present grand jury is to be absquatulated—and another called. 1910 H. G. Wells Hist. Mr. Polly v. 117 Ready to absquatulate all the dragons and rescue you. 1965 Chess Rev. 33 243/2 But lets [sic] absquatulate the vulgarians. No, tip Con the high sign; he deserves to know. Derivatives abˈsquatulating adj. ΚΠ 1840 J. P. Kennedy Quodlibet xv. 183 We may speedily expect to hear of many more Whigs following the example of our absquatulating Cashier. 1920 Cumberland (Maryland) Evening Times 3 June 9/3 The absquatulating chief of police, an outraged husband and a trifling wife were the principal characters in the tragedy drama. 2009 Anchorage (Alaska) Daily News (Nexis) 27 Sept. a5 Officers later located the absquatulating individual, who said it was just a natural reaction on his part to run away from police officers. abˈsquatulator n. ΚΠ 1840 Morning Herald (N.Y.) 16 Mar. An absquatulator from the State of New Jersey, was arrested by Welsh last week. 1977 Delaware County (Pa.) Daily Times 16 Aug. 26/2 The sort of character who owes money and won't pay up these days is known as a deadbeat. But when your greatgranddad was a lad, that kind of citizen was called an absquatulator. 2002 Providence (Rhode Island) Jrnl.-Bull. (Nexis) 14 Apr. g9 Fellow absquatulators include AMICA, Fleet National Bank, the Narragansett Hotel and others who have immigrated to the suburbs. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < v.1830 |
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