单词 | good fellowship |
释义 | good fellowshipn. 1. Affable or jovial companionship; conviviality; spec. feasting, drinking, and merrymaking; revelling, carousing. Also more generally: a spirit of companionship or comradeship; companionableness. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > social event > a merrymaking or convivial occasion > merrymaking or conviviality > [noun] mirthOE joyc1275 jollitya1300 joy-makingc1330 good fellowship?c1430 wine and womena1450 junketing1555 merrymake1579 gaiety1612 jovialty1621 joviality1626 mirth-making1638 jovialness1658 jollitry?c1685 goodfellowhood1716 merrymaking1779 conviviality1791 jollification1818 making-merry1823 carnivalizing1841 skite1869 Wein, Weib, und Gesang1885 balling1942 ?c1430 (c1400) J. Wyclif Eng. Wks. (1880) 174 For þei colouren pride wiþ honeste..dronkenesse bi good felaweschipe [etc.]. 1463 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 36 My beedys of jeet..for rememberaunce of old good felashipp. 1533 tr. Erasmus Enchiridion Militis Christiani v. sig. D.viiv We must beware of this onely yt we cloke not ye vice of nature with the name of vertue, callynge..flatering good felowshyp, knauery or rybaldry vrbanite or mery spekyng. a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) i. x. sig. F7v Actiuitie & good felowship being nothing in the price it was then held in. 1604 King James VI & I Counter-blaste to Tobacco sig. Dv It is become in place of a cure, a point of good fellowship, and he that will refuse to take a pipe of Tobacco among his fellowes, (though by his owne election he would rather feele the fauour of a Sinke) is accounted peeuish and no good company. 1612 W. Parkes Curtaine-drawer 15 The Drunkard likewise hath a Curtaine for his vgly, swinish, and beastly sinne, and that he tearmes good-fellowship. 1669 S. Pepys Diary 8 Mar. (1976) IX. 475 His age and good-fellowship have almost made him fit for nothing. 1726 Learned Diss. Dumpling 22 Why do they inveigh against Dumpling-Eating which is the Life and Soul of Good-fellowship. 1780 F. Marion in Harper's Mag. (1883) Sept. 548/1 By the laws of good-fellowship no man leaves this room till all the liquor is drank. 1828 M. R. Mitford Our Village III. 196 A hale, jovial visage, a merry eye, a pleasant smile, and a general air of good-fellowship. 1837 W. Irving Adventures Capt. Bonneville II. 86 The rival companies..prosecuted their journey in great good fellowship. 1863 F. A. Kemble Jrnl. Resid. Georgian Plantation 89 Their usual habits of Milesian good fellowship. 1923 Humorist 29 Sept. 226/1 ‘You know a thing or two.’ I admitted that I did: and, in a burst of good-fellowship, offered to teach him to ride. 1987 J. J. Steinfeld Our Hero in Cradle Confederation xvi. 87 The free-spirited frolicsomeness and good fellowship of Wednesday night is gone for the men. 2. People who are goodfellows (goodfellow n. 1) collectively. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > association, fellowship, or companionship > a company or body of persons > [noun] > having specific quality good fellowship1595 company1604 mobbishness1832 1595 G. Markham Gentlemans Acad. sig. Aiii (heading) To the Gentlemen of England: and all the good fellowship of Huntsmen and Falconers. 1703 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion II. vii. 225 Wilmot..was..much belov'd by all the good fellowship of the Army. 1976 A. Sillitoe in Prairie Schooner 50 11 The crowd threw soil and dung at him. He saw these gestures merely as the earth extending a hand, welcoming him to become part of the good fellowship of the loam. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.?c1430 |
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