| 单词 | for nuts |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfor nuts a. slang. A source of pleasure or delight (to or for a person); for nuts: for amusement, for fun. Now rare (U.S. in later use).Formerly occasionally more fully †nuts and cheese.In quot. 1819 used in singular to denote a thing, action, etc., intended to please someone. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > [noun] > source of amusement or entertainment mirtha1250 solacec1290 recreationc1400 esbatement1477 pastime1490 pastancea1500 passe-temps1542 entertainment1561 relief?1578 fancy1590 sport1598 abridgement1600 entertain1601 recreative1615 amusatory1618 nutsa1625 diverter1628 recreator1629 passatempo1632 amuser1724 fun1726 dissipation1733 resource1752 distraction1859 enlivening1859 good, clean fun1867 enlivenment1883 light relief1885 laugh1921 not one's scene1962 violon d'Ingres1963 a1625 J. Fletcher Mad Lover v. iv, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. D2v/1 But they are needfull mischiefes, And such are Nuts to me. 1672 A. Marvell Rehearsal Transpros'd i. 56 This story would have been Nuts to Mother Midnight. 1705 in W. S. Perry Hist. Coll. Amer. Colonial Church: Virginia (1870) I. 147 Pray remember that our divisions will be nuts to the adversaries of the Church. 1712 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 8 Jan. (1948) II. 458 And lord keeper and treasurer teazed me for a week: it was nuts to them: a serious thing with a vengeance. a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. iii. 411 Mischief is said to be nuts to some folks. 1805 Naval Chron. 13 11 This was Nuts to many of them whose purses could afford it. 1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. at Nut To please a person by any little act of assiduity, by a present, or by flattering words, is called nutting him; as the present, &c., by which you have gratified them is termed a nut. 1829 P. Egan Boxiana New Ser. II. 284 It was nuts for the turnpike coves; and the Bonifaces, all the way to the scene of action, were in high spirits. 1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxv. 269 This was nuts to us; for we liked to have a Spaniard wet with salt water. 1854 Putnam's Monthly Mag. July 52/1 So that his landlord might not..advert to the unsettled account, on the stair-case, which event would be nuts and cheese to his fellow-lodgers, who would be sure to listen at their doors. 1876 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Tom Sawyer xiii. 118 ‘Ain't it gay?’ said Joe. ‘It's nuts!’ said Tom. ‘What would the boys say if they could see us?’ 1886 J. M. Morton Comediettas & Farces 161 I used to be considered quite a crack shot at the bull's-eye!..at the end of a barrow—for nuts! 1910 Amer. Golfer 4 254/2 To go in the cup From twenty feet up To Sandy McCann was nuts. 1914 G. Atherton Perch of Devil i. 79 Why don't you sink a shaft, just for nuts. 1941 H. L. Mencken Diary 16 Oct. (1989) 163 Such an idiot, in his palmy days, would have been nuts for him, but I begin to doubt..that he will be able to swing the job now. < as lemmas |
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