| 单词 | crack a jest |
| 释义 | > as lemmascrack a jest 5. transitive. To utter, pronounce, or tell aloud, briskly, or with éclat; formerly in crack a boast, crack a word, crack a jest; and still in crack a joke. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > speak, say, or utter [verb (transitive)] speakc825 queatheOE forthdoc900 i-seggenc900 sayeOE speak971 meleOE quidOE spella1000 forthbringc1000 givec1175 warpa1225 mootc1225 i-schirea1250 upbringa1250 outsay?c1250 spilec1275 talec1275 wisea1300 crackc1315 nevena1325 cast1330 rehearsec1330 roundc1330 spend1362 carpa1375 sermona1382 to speak outc1384 usea1387 minc1390 pronouncea1393 lancec1400 mellc1400 nurnc1400 slingc1400 tellc1400 wordc1400 yelpc1400 worka1425 utterc1444 outspeakc1449 yielda1450 arecchec1460 roose?a1475 cutc1525 to come forth with1532 bubble1536 prolate1542 report1548 prolocute1570 bespeak1579 wield1581 upbraid1587 up with (also mid) ——1594 name1595 upbrayc1600 discoursea1616 tonguea1616 to bring out1665 voice1665 emit1753 lip1789 to out with1802 pitch1811 go1836 to open one's head1843 vocabulize1861 shoot1915 verbal1920 be1982 the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > cause laughter [verb (intransitive)] > jest or joke gameOE jest1553 mow1559 cog1588 to break a jest1589 droll1654 joke1670 fool1673 crack a jest1721 crack a joke1753 pleasant1848 humorize1851 rot1896 kibitz1923 gag1942 c1315 Shoreham 99 Wordes that he craketh. 1402 T. Hoccleve Let. of Cupid 328 Kepe thyn owne what men clappe or crake! c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Reeve's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 81 He craked boost and swoor it was noght so. a1420 T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum 3092 Not a worde dar he crake. 1508 Bp. J. Fisher Wks. (1876) 83 Myn enemyes craked and spake many grete wordes. 1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene v. iii. sig. O4 And further did vncomely speaches crake [rhyme vndertake] . View more context for this quotation a1637 B. Jonson tr. Horace Art of Poetrie 351 in Wks. (1640) III Or cracke out shamefull speeches, or uncleane. 1721 Visct. Bolingbroke Let. 28 July in J. Swift Lett. (1766) II. 224 He cracked jests. 1753 T. Smollett Ferdinand Count Fathom II. lxvi. 290 [He] would fain have cracked a joke upon their extraordinary dispatch. 1767 Babler I. 265 He..will..even..crack his indelicate ambiguities upon his children. 1860 W. M. Thackeray Thorns in Cushion in Roundabout Papers (1876) 47 Whilst the doctor..cracked his great clumsy jokes upon you. < as lemmas |
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