单词 | get-there-ativeness |
释义 | † get-there-ativenessn. U.S. Obsolete. = get-up-and-go n. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > [noun] > energy or enterprise undertakingc1400 enterprisec1450 energy1793 dynamism1831 go-aheadism1838 get-up1841 go-ahead1843 go-aheadness1847 drive1859 get-up-and-get1865 get-up-and-go1871 get-there-ativeness1883 push-and-go1885 hustle1892 go-getting1919 go-gettingness1928 dynamicism1947 go-go-go1954 1883 Bismarck (Dakota Territory) Tribune 31 Aug. 4/4 It was a south Dakota paper that said: ‘For get-there-ativeness, Bismarck takes the cake’. 1891 Printers' Ink 29 July 80/1 An advertisement that will change a healthy, full-blooded man into a seemingly shattered wreck has the merit, possibly, of get-there-ativeness. 1900 19th Cent. 48 800 We [sc. American women] have nothing like your enterprise and ‘get-there-ativeness’ in my country. 1921 Commerc. Car Jrnl. 15 Feb. 92/1 The difference between the purely static state of mind and the one bristling with dynamic energy and ‘get-there-itiveness’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1883 |
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