单词 | fire-new |
释义 | fire-newadj. Now archaic and U.S. regional. Fresh from the fire or furnace; (hence) completely new, brand new. Cf. fiery-new adj. (a) at fiery adj. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > newness or novelty > [adjective] > brand new span-newc1300 spon-new13.. brand-newc1570 spick and span new1579 new-new1592 fire-new1597 fiery-new1644 spick and span1665 split-new1695 spander-new1707 spank span-new1775 spick-span1815 spleet-new1818 brand-span-new1828 spick-span new1880 firebrand new1882 spanking new1886 spandy new1903 pin-new1967 box-fresh1990 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III i. iii. 254 Your fire-new stampe of honour is scarse currant. View more context for this quotation 1599 H. Buttes Dyets Dry Dinner sig. N5v Curdes..fire-newe: for these be most digestible. 1615 J. Sylvester Hymn of Almes 195 Fire-new Fashion in a Sleeve. a1668 J. Alleine Alarme to Unconverted Sinners (1672) ii. 27 The sincere Christian is quite a new fabrick, from the foundation to the top stone all fire-new. 1713 J. Addison in Guardian 21 July 1/1 Another Suit Fire-New, with Silver Buttons to it. 1768 A. Ross Fortunate Shepherdess i. 28 A pair o' kissing strings, an' gloovs fire new. 1800 S. T. Coleridge tr. F. Schiller Piccolomini iv. vii. 173 Duke Friedland is, as others, A fire-new Noble. 1849 R. Browning Poems (new ed.) II. 268 With a fire-new spoon we're furnished. 1906 ‘M. Twain’ in Harper's Weekly 7 Apr. 488/1 Mr. Foley began to do schoolboy poems in a fire-new and blood-curdling and criminal fashion of spelling. 1945 K. Tynan Let. 31 Jan. (1994) i. 63 Music and the film are intermingled into a fire-new creation. 2002 M. Sedgwick Dark Horse (2003) xvi. 135 Thorbjorn unwrapped the cloth. Out of it he pulled a gleaming, bright weapon. A fire-new sword. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1597 |
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