| 单词 | a box on the ear |
| 释义 | > as lemmasa box on the ear An act of hitting someone; a blow. Now chiefly: spec. a blow on the ear or side of the head with the hand, esp. in a box on the ear; cf. to box a person's ears at box v.1 1. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impact > striking > [noun] > a stroke or blow > specific on a person buffet?c1225 flatc1320 boxc1330 rapc1330 plaguea1382 puncha1450 buffc1475 jowl?1516 beff1768 funk1790 fib1814 cob1828 one1876 biff1889 clump1889 one in the eye1891 conk1898 fourpenny one1936 a sock in the eye1972 kennedy- the world > movement > impact > striking > striking on specific part of the body > [noun] > on the head > on the ear or side of the head boxc1330 whistersnivet1540 whisterpoop1605 whister-clister1787 whister-twister1825 whistersniff1883 c1330 (?c1300) Bevis of Hampton (Auch.) l. 1744 Ȝit ich wile asaie, A lite box þe to paie! c1430 (c1386) G. Chaucer Legend Good Women (Cambr. Gg.4.27) (1879) l. 1388 He that hath abought his loue wol dere Or hadde in armys manye a blodi box [1532 Thynne boxe]. 1574 J. Baret Aluearie B 993 To giue one a boxe or blowe with the fist. 1589 J. Lyly (title) Pappe with an hatchet..or a countrie cuffe, that is, a sound boxe of the eare, for the idiot Martin to hold his peace. 1647 H. More Philos. Poems iii. App. lxv The Shrow him beat with buffes and boxes. 1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 317. ¶35 Gave Ralph a Box on the Ear. 1726 J. Swift Gulliver I. ii. v. 84 The Bird..gave me..many Boxes with his Wings on both Sides of my Head and Body. 1838 E. L. Joseph Warner Arundell I. xiii. 129 He tried to seize me; but I gave him a box with my head in his victualling-office that upset him, tied and gagged him with his own rope. 1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People vii. §3. 363 She [sc. Elizabeth] met the insolence of Essex with a box on the ear. 2009 Tampa Tribune (Nexis) 4 Jan. (Getaway section) 1 Our family was forbidden to speak with the POWs. Even a glance in their direction might warrant a box on the ear if a guard was in a bad mood. < as lemmas |
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