单词 | liketer |
释义 | > as lemmasliketer 11. With reference to an action narrowly averted or avoided, with the action specified by to and an infinitive (usually a perfect infinitive): almost or nearly doing or being; coming close to; narrowly missing. Also (esp. in sense A. 11c) written with like to reduced to a single word, as liketa, liketer.Arising from the use of sense A. 10a in past-tense counterfactual contexts.Frequently analysed as an auxiliary verb: see the notes at senses A. 11b, A. 11c, and cf. like v.2 3. extracted from likeadj.adv.conj.prep. a. In predicative use, with be in a past tense, as was like to, were like to, had been like to, etc. Now U.S. regional (chiefly south and south Midland) and in African-American usage. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > [adjective] > imminent, near, or at hand towardc890 comingOE at handc1175 hendc1175 hendc1175 short?a1400 likec1425 near present?c1450 hangingc1503 instant?1520 neara1522 approachinga1525 imminent1528 provenient1554 threatened1567 near-threateninga1586 eminent1587 impendenta1592 sudden1597 ensuing1603 dependenta1616 pending1642 incumbent1646 early1655 fast-approaching1671 impendinga1686 incoming1753 pendent1805 proximatea1831 simmering1843 pending1850 invenient1854 looming1855 forthcoming1859 near-term1929 upcoming1959 c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) v. l. 2052 (MED) I was lyk to haue be deuourid Of Caribdis. ?1454 M. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 252 If he had abedyn at hom he had be lyk to have be fechid owte of his owyn hows, for the peple þer-abowgth is sore mevod with hym. a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll. 13) (1990) I. 42 He spurred hys horse..and so..oftyn he was lyke to have smytten the herte. ?1530 J. Rastell Pastyme of People sig. *A.vi At a batell at wylton bytwene them the kynge lost the fylde, and was lyke to haue ben takyn, but yet he escaped. 1592 Arden of Feversham sig. H.2 In Temes streete a brewers carte was lyke to haue runne ouer me. 1663 in J. Raine Depos. Castle of York (1861) 113 The said Stranger..tormented her body soe intollerably that she could nott rest all the night, and was like to teare her very heart in peeces, and this morneing left her. 1709 J. Strype Ann. Reformation xx. 235 After the Treaty had been like to have been broken off. 1819 Classical Jrnl. 19 155 This person..fixing the neglect of which he had been guilty..upon me; and I was like to have been brought to a trial before a court of justice. 1885 A. J. Church Chantry Priest of Barnet xxiv. 268 She was like to have died. And now she is very feeble. 1972 W. Labov Lang. in Inner City ii. 56 [Citing an African-American respondent from S. Carolina] I was liketo[sic] have got shot. b. With be replaced by have, usually in had like to. Cf. had liked to at like v.2 3a. regional in later use.Probably arising from the ellipsis of been in had been like to (cf. had (also was, were) likely at likely adj. 3), perhaps also under the influence of the use of have as an auxiliary verb in counterfactual contexts (cf. have v. 39, 40). The subsequent development of had liked to suggests that reanalysis as a verb occurred (in some cases at least) by the end of the 16th cent., and in later, regional use like is often treated as a modal auxiliary, with had like to and had liked to parts of a single paradigm.In later use also with omission of have from the perfect infinitive so that like to is followed directly by the past participle (sometimes reinterpreted as a past tense); cf. sense A. 11c(b). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > probability, likelihood > be or seem likely [verb (intransitive)] > to do semblea1400 to make semblant1470 had (also was, were) likely?1503 had like to1548 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VII f. clxviv The commissioners ordered that no wheate should be conueyed out of one shyre to another, whiche commaundement had like to haue raysed trouble. 1559 P. Morwyng tr. C. Gesner Treasure of Euonymus 25 Wemen comend it [sc. Alsine] greatly, and som say they haue tried it them selues... But that when I tasted it, had like to haue made me vomit [L. mihi..fere nauseam mouebat]. 1592 A. Day 2nd Pt. Eng. Secretorie sig. M4v, in Eng. Secretorie (rev. ed.) That hee had like to haue knockte his head against the gallowes. 1651 Ld. Orrery Parthenissa I. i. i. 57 Ioy had like to have perform'd what Griefe had but begun. 1657 W. Rand tr. P. Gassendi Mirrour of Nobility i. 20 And these digressions..had like to cost him dear. 1701 W. Congreve Let. 28 Jan. (1964) 18 I must desire you to put Robin in mind, that his forgetfulness has like to have had an ill effect. 1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 78. ⁋4 The young Lady was amorous, and had like to have run away with her Father's Coachman. 1766 H. Brooke Fool of Quality II. xii. 212 I had like to murder poor Mr. Vindex. 1826 W. Scott Jrnl. 16 Feb. (1939) 107 I had like to have been too hasty. 1873 J. Ruskin Fors Clavigera III. xxvii. 7 I had like to have said something else. 1967–8 in Dict. Amer. Regional Eng. (1996) III. 356/2 [Iowa] She'd like to killed him. [Texas] She'd like to 'a' had a fit. 1976 W. Wolfram & D. Christian Appalachian Eng. 92 Well, she's liketa threw me... Matter of fact, she did one time. c. Chiefly regional. With omission of be or have.In U.S. regional use typically treated as a modal auxiliary verb, constituting a paradigm along with the inflected liked to with the same meaning (see like v.2 3b). Examples of single word forms, esp. liketa, are particularly common in this construction; cf. gonna v., oughta v., useter v., etc., and the note at like v.2 3. (a) With following infinitive, usually a perfect infinitive. Cf. like v.2 3b(a). Now U.S. regional (chiefly south and south Midland) and in African-American usage. ΚΠ a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) v. iv. 47 I haue had foure quarrels, and like to haue fought one. View more context for this quotation 1720 D. Manley Secret Mem. (ed. 6) IV. 188 She advanced toward the Land of Coquetry, and like to have arrived there,..when Gallenicus retrenched all her Liberties,..took Home his Wife! lock'd her up! 1865 O. L. Jackson Colonel's Diary (1922) 189 I went out among the boys and like to have got intoxicated. 1889 ‘C. E. Craddock’ Despot Broomsedge Cove xviii. 327 That's what like to have happened to me. 1907 Sat. Evening Post 9 Nov. 32/2 He was cussin' so hard he like to 'a' fell off'n his hoss. 1954 Harder Coll. in Dict. Amer. Regional Eng. (1996) III. 356/2 I like to a split a gut laughin'. 1987 C. Hulse In Tall Cotton vii. 109 I tell you I like to'a died. (b) U.S. regional (chiefly south and south Midland) and in African-American usage. With omission of have from the perfect infinitive so that like to is followed directly by the past participle (see note below). Cf. like v.2 3b(b).Frequently interpreted as an adverbial phrase (or as an adverb in forms written as a single word) with the sense ‘almost, nearly’, modifying a verb in the past tense (an analysis probably arising from the widespread regional use of past tense forms as past participles; see, e.g., quot. 1907 at sense A. 11c(a)). Sociolinguists and dialectologists often explain this use as a reanalysis of the verb phrase as an adverbial rather than a reanalysis of the original adjectival phrase (see notes at senses A. 11b, A. 11c). ΚΠ 1830 in Jrnl. Illinois State Hist. Soc. (1930–1) XXIII. 214 The boat went under a tree top and like to took me off. 1884 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Huckleberry Finn xxxix. 333 We like-to got a hornet's nest, but we didn't. 1902 J. H. Nicholls Bayou Triste xi. 165 Miss Mary, I wuz dat flammergasted I liketer swooned. 1973 Black World Apr. 63 Damn brim like to covered broad street. 1988 Amer. Voice No. 10. 38 He liketa choked hisself, it run out so fast. 2001 P. Duncan Moon Women ii. 40 They was the light of Marvelle's life, and it like to killed her to lose them. < as lemmas |
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