单词 | good-morning |
释义 | good-morningv. 1. intransitive. To greet someone by saying good morning. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > courtesy > courteous act or expression > use formal courtesy in act or expression [verb (intransitive)] > greet > greet with specific words good time of day1597 good-morning1802 chin-chin1817 1802 G. Colman Broad Grins 56 She met them, every day, Good morninging, and how d'ye doing. 1828 Sporting Mag. Oct. 401/2 Do you observe, as he rides along the ranks, ‘good-morninging and how-d' ye-doing’? 1942 E. M. Knight Sam flies Again x. 258 Sam heiled Hitler and good-morninged right back. 1988 D. Adams Long Dark Tea-time of Soul (1991) vii. 76 The orderly arrived promptly in his well-pressed loose green tunic, good-morninged cheerfully, and bustled around locating bedroom slippers and dressing gown. 2. transitive. To say good morning to.In quot. 1850: to utter (a person's name) in wishing the person a good morning. ΚΠ 1850 R. S. Surtees in New Monthly Mag. 88 209 So Puffington sauntered along good morninging ‘Sir Harrys’, and ‘Sir Jameses’,..and ‘Lord Toms’. 1872 C. Chapman Voy. Southampton to Cape Town 126 Those who drink ‘go to the dogs’, and are good-morninged and good-dayed away by every one they meet. 1918 W. A. White In Heart of Fool xviii. 192 Mr. Van Dorn..hellowed Dick, and howareyoued Hiram, and goodmorninged John, down the street, into his office. 1937 J. R. R. Tolkien Hobbit i. 15 To think that I should have lived to be good-morninged by Belladonna Took's son. 2006 P. Levine Deep Blue Alibi l. 439 Earlier,..the sheriff had strolled over and good-morninged her. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1802 |
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