单词 | look ye |
释义 | > as lemmaslook ye c. intransitive. Emphatically with pronoun, as look you, look ye, look thee. Formerly also transitive with interrogative clause as object. Cf. looky v. Now regional or archaic.look you now chiefly in Welsh English, esp. in stereotypical representations. ΚΠ ?c1400 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (BL Add. 10340) (1868) iv. met. vi. l. 4120 Loke þou and bihold þe heyȝtes of souereyne heuene. 1484 W. Caxton tr. G. de la Tour-Landry Bk. Knight of Tower (1971) lvi. 82 Now loke ye and see how by a foolysshe woman cometh many euyllis & domages. ?1577 J. Northbrooke Spiritus est Vicarius Christi: Treat. Dicing 101 Looke thee howe King Demetrius The King of Parthes..Sent a paire of Dice of golde in scorne. 1587 J. Harmar tr. T. de Bèze Serm. ix. 124 Looke yee, this is good and pleasing vnto God. 1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 ii. ii. 100 Looke you how he writes. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) iii. iii. 109 Heauy matters, heauy matters: but looke thee heere boy. View more context for this quotation 1672 Duke of Buckingham Rehearsal i. 5 For, look you, Sir, the grand design..is to keep the Auditors in suspence. 1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 34. ⁋4 Look ye, said I, I must not rashly give my Judgment. 1767 D. Garrick Cymon ii. i. 17 Why, look ye, Sister, I am as little inclin'd to bear these things as yourself. 1826 W. Scott Woodstock III. v. 154 Why look thee, wench, I thought I knew him at the first meeting. 1881 J. Sargisson Joe Scoap's Jurneh ii. 73 Lutheh at them fer two silly feulls. 1885 R. Holland Gloss. Words County of Chester (1886) 210 Loo the! John; folks sen as cottage property's not worth havin. 1917 P. L. Curran Sorry Tale ii. i. 216 Look thee! Look thee! He who hath come from without the walls hath upon his camel's cloths the sign of the great one! 1974 Daily Mail 1 Oct. 8/5 Look you! Plaid Cymru protested to the BBC yesterday over the timing of its only party political broadcast. 1994 C. Coulter Nightingale Legacy (1995) 38 Look ye, Tweks, she's right purty and he's a driveling little toff. 2010 R. Bowen Evan Blessed xxviii. 233 Most of them have their own caravans, look you. < as lemmas |
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