| 单词 | cock-a-hooping |
| 释义 | > as lemmascock-a-ˈhooping cock-a-ˈhooping n. (frequently in form cock-a-whooping) triumphant or boastful exultation (now rare); (also and in earliest use) †an expression of elation or exultation (obsolete rare).When in form cock-a-whooping often apparently punning on whooping n. 1 ΚΠ 1862 Sat. Rev. 27 Dec. 776/2 These groans and these cock-a-whoopings at the sale of the Cornhill are rather tiny things to reprint in a formal and permanent shape. 1863 Sat. Rev. 28 Mar. 402/1 In his efforts to educate the masses, it is probable that he will educate and even polish himself; and, becoming conscious of real power, naturally drop the crowing and cock-a-whooping which he now fancies their best substitute. 1888 ‘Garryowen’ Chron. Early Melbourne II. lv. 763 No comparison can be instituted between the modern crowing and the sonorous cock-a-hooping with which auction sales used to be heralded in the olden time. 1945 Liberal Mag. Dec. 549/1 This, and much cock-a-hooping about the ‘death’ of the Liberal Party, went on for a few weeks. 1967 Irish Times 22 Mar. 9/4 He [sc. Jonathan Swift] insists in Cadenus and Vanessa that he is not marked out for love, and he had written in 1729..lines that clear him of any charge of cheap cock-a-whooping. < as lemmas |
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