单词 | kamerad |
释义 | kameradn. Comrade, companion: the exclamation used as an appeal for quarter by a German-speaking soldier on surrendering. Hence jocularly as v. intransitive, to say ‘kamerad’, express one's wish to surrender. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > defeat > be defeated [verb (intransitive)] > surrender to cry (or say) creanta1250 to yield oneself creanta1250 to do (also put) oneself in (also to) a person's mercya1325 yieldc1330 recray1340 summisec1450 render1523 amain1540 surrender1560 to throw down one's arms (also weapons, etc.)1593 articulate1595 to yield (also bow oneself) to (also upon) mercy1595 to give grass1597 capitulate1601 to cry cravena1634 to lower or strike one's flag1644 bail1840 hands-up1879 kamerad1914 society > armed hostility > defeat > [noun] > surrender > cry of surrender kamerad1914 1914 Illustr. London News 10 Oct. 497 How the enemy surrenders, saying, ‘Kamerad..Pardon!’ 1916 ‘B. Cable’ Action Front 63 ‘Nein, nein!’ answered Ainsley. ‘You kamarade—sie kamarade.’ The other, in somewhat voluble gutturals, insisted that Ainsley must ‘kamarade’, otherwise surrender. 1917 P. MacGill Brown Brethren vii. 105 ‘Kamerad! Kamerad!’ they whined, their arms shaking as if stricken with palsy. 1917 Times Hist. War XIV. 199/2 Then Gardener shouted to the others..‘You're late. Everybody else has Kameraded.’ 1918 Daily News 21 Sept. 5/2 When our men came down the steps of the dugout the card-players perfunctorily held up their hands and ‘Kameraded’. 1923 Westm. Gaz. 3 July Sir W. Joynson-Hicks cried ‘Kamerad’ at once. He tried to let himself down lightly by saying that he had expected a unanimous acceptance. 1930 R. Kipling Limits & Renewals (1932) 259 ‘Kamerad, Bull! I'll come in,’ said Loftie. Vaughan's hands had gone up first. 1973 C. Egleton Seven Days to Killing viii. 89 He threw his weapon aside, held up his hands and yelled Kamerad. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < n.1914 |
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