英语词汇“like a cock at a gooseberry”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

f. like a cock at a gooseberry (also groset and variants): very quickly and without hesitation; eagerly; ‘like a shot’. In later use chiefly Scottish and Irish English (northern).

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1778 J. Robertson Heroine of Love i. 10 What a fuss does she make about running away with a handsome fellow, a thing that half her sex would jump at, like a cock at a gooseberry, as the saying is.

1822 W. Scott Fortunes of Nigel II. iii. 57 My sooth, they will jump at them [sc. gold coins] in Edinburgh like a cock at a grossart.

a1870 D. Thomson Musings among Heather (1881) 44 Tae loup like a cock at a grosset At ilka bit bodie we see, May dae unco weel for some tarlochs, But, lad, it'll no dae for me.

1968 B. Friel Lovers ii. 128 Before we got married, she was full of fight, there: let the aul woman step out of line or say something sharp to me and by God she jumped at her like a cock at a gooseberry.

1989 W. McIlvanney Walking Wounded 83 ‘Sh!’ Gus said. ‘We don't go at this like a cock at a grozet.’ ‘A grozet?’ Fin asked. ‘A gooseberry, Fin,’ Gus said.

2015 @rebeccamcpKe 3 Sept. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) If a man jist crep ontae your horizon ye'd be efter him like a cock at a grosset.

单词	like a cock at a gooseberry
释义	> as lemmas like a cock at a gooseberry (also groset and variants) f. like a cock at a gooseberry (also groset and variants): very quickly and without hesitation; eagerly; ‘like a shot’. In later use chiefly Scottish and Irish English (northern). ΚΠ 1778 J. Robertson Heroine of Love i. 10 What a fuss does she make about running away with a handsome fellow, a thing that half her sex would jump at, like a cock at a gooseberry, as the saying is. 1822 W. Scott Fortunes of Nigel II. iii. 57 My sooth, they will jump at them [sc. gold coins] in Edinburgh like a cock at a grossart. a1870 D. Thomson Musings among Heather (1881) 44 Tae loup like a cock at a grosset At ilka bit bodie we see, May dae unco weel for some tarlochs, But, lad, it'll no dae for me. 1968 B. Friel Lovers ii. 128 Before we got married, she was full of fight, there: let the aul woman step out of line or say something sharp to me and by God she jumped at her like a cock at a gooseberry. 1989 W. McIlvanney Walking Wounded 83 ‘Sh!’ Gus said. ‘We don't go at this like a cock at a grozet.’ ‘A grozet?’ Fin asked. ‘A gooseberry, Fin,’ Gus said. 2015 @rebeccamcpKe 3 Sept. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) If a man jist crep ontae your horizon ye'd be efter him like a cock at a grosset. extracted from cockn.¹int. < as lemmas
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