| 单词 | cutting-up |
| 释义 | > as lemmascutting-up e. cutting-up: extracted from cuttingn. (a) The action of to cut up at cut v. Phrasal verbs; spec. boisterous, frolicsome, or silly behaviour. (U.S.) ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > trickery, playing jokes > [noun] legerdemain1532 hocus-pocus1647 sham1683 funning1728 humbugging1752 humming1807 hoaxing1808 larking1813 cutting-up1843 cut-up1843 shenanigan1855 codology1860 greening1863 cod1866 leg-pulling1879 spoof1889 codding1892 spoofery1895 four-flushing1901 kidding1901 shenaniganning1924 kidology1964 1693 W. Congreve Old Batchelour iv. i. 32 A delicious Mellon..only waits thy Cutting up. 1812 R. Southey Omniana I. xlvii. 83 Before the butcher's phrase ‘cutting up’ was supposed to be synonymous with criticizing. 1843 ‘R. Carlton’ New Purchase II. liii. 209 Cutting up..consists in craking nuts and jokes—racing one another, and slamming doors—in upsetting chairs, and even kicking up carpets! 1883 J. A. Macon Uncle Gabe Tucker 162 De perlicemen nebber would 'a' let John de Baptis' do any sich cuttin'-up as dat. (b) Founding. (See quot. 1888.) ΚΠ 1888 Lockwood's Dict. Mech. Engin. 101 Cutting-up, the gashing of the broken edges or faces of a sand mould preparatory to adding fresh sand for mending-up. < as lemmas |
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