单词 | guff |
释义 | † guffn.1 Obsolete. A chub. (See chub n. 1.) ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > superorder Ostariophysi or order Cypriniformes > [noun] > suborder Cyprinoidei > family Cyprinidae (minnows and carps) > cyprinus cephalus (chub) chevinc1450 chub1496 chavender?a1500 pollard1585 botlinga1609 guff1655 sea-chub1668 poll1755 skelly1769 fallfisha1811 big-head1820 1655 T. Moffett & C. Bennet Healths Improvem. xix. 180 Guffs..are a kind of jolt-headed Gudgins. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2021). guffn.2 1. A puff, whiff. ΚΠ 1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. Guff, a savour. 1864 R. Paul Let. 9 Aug. in B. Bell Mem. R. Paul (1872) xviii. 296 A guff of Highland air from this very enjoyable place. 2. slang (originally U.S.). Empty talk, nonsense, ‘stuff’, ‘blather’. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > empty, idle talk > [noun] windc1290 trotevalea1300 follyc1300 jangle1340 jangleryc1374 tongue1382 fablec1384 clapa1420 babbling?c1430 clackc1440 pratinga1470 waste?a1475 clattera1500 trattle1513 babble?a1525 tattlea1529 tittle-tattlea1529 chatc1530 babblery1532 bibble-babble1532 slaverings1535 trittle-trattle1563 prate?1574 babblement1595 pribble-prabble1595 pribble1603 morologya1614 pibble-pabblea1616 sounda1616 spitter-spatter1619 argology1623 vaniloquence1623 vaniloquy1623 drivelling1637 jabberment1645 blateration1656 onology1670 whittie-whattiea1687 stultiloquence1721 claver1722 blether1786 havera1796 jaunder1796 havering1808 slaver1825 yatter1827 bugaboo1833 flapdoodle1834 bavardage1835 maunder1835 tattlement1837 slabber1840 gup1848 faddle1850 chatter1851 cock1851 drivel1852 maundering1853 drooling1854 windbaggery1859 blither1866 javer1869 mush1876 slobber1886 guff1888 squit1893 drool1900 macaroni1924 jive1928 natter1943 shtick1948 old talk1956 yack1958 yackety-yack1958 ole talk1964 Haigspeak1981 1888 Scribner's Mag. Aug. 219/1 I tell you all this talk is guff, and it just comes down to the money. 1889 Sportsman 19 Jan. (Farmer) He can have the newspapers to him~self, and with that windbag Mitchell fill them with guff and nonsense. 1897 Sat. Rev. 12 June 657/1 Histrionic guff and bugaboo, instead of fine acting. a1911 D. G. Phillips Susan Lenox (1917) II. vi. 161 Don't listen to their guff about wanting to see you again if you treat 'em right. There's nothing in it. 1930 G. B. Shaw Apple Cart ii. 78 You cant run them [sc. power stations] on patriotic songs..and guff and bugaboo. 1936 ‘F. O'Connor’ Bones of Contention 187 I never thought..that my Tom had such ould guff in him. 1959 Encounter Aug. 64/1 All that guff in Look Back in Anger about how there are no causes left to die for. 1966 J. Dos Passos Best Times (1968) iv. 144 Whether it was politics or literary work or painting he [sc. Hemingway] would take the guff out of a situation with a wellplaced fourletter word. 1966 Crescendo Jan. 32/1 The sleeve-notes give us a lot of guff about getting with it and so on and tell us nothing constructive. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.11655n.21825 |
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