单词 | i swan |
释义 | > as lemmasI swan I swan, I declare: often in exclamatory asseveration. I swan to man, a mitigated form of I swear to God. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > statement > [phrase] I swan1823 swanny1839 I swow1844 1823 Missouri Intelligencer 20 May I swan it is. 1836 T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker (1862) 65 If you hante obsarved it, I have, and a queer one it is, I swan. 1842 C. M. Kirkland Forest Life I. ii. 20 ‘Well! I swan!’ exclaimed the mamma. 1844 ‘J. Slick’ High Life N.Y. I. 3 I swan if it warn't enough to make a feller dry to see the hogsheads of rum and molasses. 1862 J. R. Lowell Biglow Papers 2nd Ser. i. i. 27 They du preach, I swan to man, it's puf'kly indescrib'le! 1873 W. Carleton Betsey & I are Out in Farm Ballads ii ‘What is the matter?’ say you. I swan it's hard to tell! < as lemmas |
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