单词 | hanover |
释义 | Hanovern. 1. go to Hanover = begone, be off (cf. go to Hexham, Bath, Jericho ); so to send to, wish at Hanover. ΚΠ 1727 J. Gay Ballad on Quadrille x, in J. Swift et al. Misc.: Last Vol. 201 And now, God save this noble Realm, And God save eke Hanover; And God save those who hold the Helm, When as the King goes over. 2. what the Hanover, an expression of irritation or impatience. dialect or colloquial. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > anger > irritation > expression of irritation [interjection] when1592 pshaw1607 que voulez-vous1841 psht1868 what the Hanover1902 gah1917 give me strength1923 for crying out loud1924 1902 Eng. Dial. Dict. III. 56/2 What the Hanover do I care about it? 1914 D. H. Lawrence Prussian Officer & Other Stories 223 ‘What the Hanover's got you?’ asked Whiston. ‘Nothing. Can't I get up?’ 1915 D. H. Lawrence Rainbow i. 20 He went home..wondering What the Hanover! Derivatives Hanoverian adj. and n. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > native or inhabitant of Germany > [adjective] > parts of Germany Suevical1560 Swevical1560 Prussian1565 Suevian1574 Thuringian1607 Franconian1608 Suevic1638 High German1640 Saxonic1647 Saxon1654 Swabian1684 Saxonian1761 Hanoverian1775 Low German1808 East German1849 West German1850 West German1946 Balt1954 1775 J. Ash New Dict. Eng. Lang. Hanoverian, belonging to Hanover..A native of Hanover. 1828 T. B. Macaulay Hallam's Constit. Hist. in Edinb. Rev. Sept. 130 Like William and the princes of the Hanoverian line. 1869 J. E. T. Rogers Hist. Gleanings I. 37 It became manifest that the law of the Hanoverian succession would be respected. ΚΠ 1744 London Mag. 649 Our Hanovranised Ministers here. ΚΠ a1797 H. Walpole Mem. George II (1847) III. 179 Sir John Philipps reproached Pitt with Hanoverizing. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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