| 单词 | a leek's clove |
| 释义 | > as lemmasa leek's clove ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > that which is unimportant > of little worth ivy-leafc1000 needle?c1225 sloec1250 peasea1275 strawc1290 bean1297 nutc1300 buttonc1330 leekc1330 trifle1375 cress1377 goose-wing1377 sop1377 niflec1395 vetcha1400 a pin's head (also point)c1450 trump1513 plack1530 toy1530 blue point1532 grey groat1546 cherry-stone1607 jiggalorum1613 candle-enda1625 peppercorn1638 sponge1671 sneeshing1686 snottera1689 catchpenny1705 potato1757 snuff1809 pinhead1828 traneen1837 a hill of beans1863 gubbins1918 c1330 (?c1300) Guy of Warwick (Auch.) l. 3644 Bodi & soule no nouȝt þer-of No is nouȝt worþ a lekes clof. c1386 G. Chaucer Merchant's Tale 106 Every man that holt him worth a leek. c1386 G. Chaucer Can. Yeom. Prol. & T. 242. a1400–50 Alexander 4228 Ȝour lare of a leke suld neuire þe les worth. a1483 Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 278 Thay were not of thayre entent the nere of a leke. 14.. Childe of Bristowe 8 in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. (1864) I. 111 The beste song that ever was made ys not worth a lekys blade, but men wol tende ther-tille. a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. i. 7 Now, therof a leke what rekys vs? a1529 J. Skelton Colyn Cloute (?1545) sig. A.vi They make her wynche and keke But it is not worth a leke. 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. iii. 91 And broaking Lawes for Bribes, prophane your Place, To leaue a Leeke to your vnthankfull Race. 1636 A. Montgomerie Cherrie & Slae (new ed.) 1374 I know no liquor worth a leeke To quench his deidly drouth. ?a1800 Willie's drowned in Gamery iii, in F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads (1890) IV. vii. 181/1 I dinna value their love a leek. < as lemmas |
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