单词 | love work |
释义 | > as lemmaslove work love work n. now rare = lovemaking n. (in either sense). ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > courtship or wooing > [noun] wooingc1000 wouhlechec1230 wouhlechunga1250 love work?a1300 love-druryc1300 love playc1390 suitc1475 lovemakinga1500 loveshipc1500 suiting1568 courtship1600 courting1607 suitoringa1640 amouring1675 sparking1804 sprunting1823 lovering1848 twosing1940 ?a1300 Dame Sirith 375 in G. H. McKnight Middle Eng. Humorous Tales (1913) 17 Leue dame, if eni clerc Bedeþ þe þat loue-werc, Ich rede þat þou grante his bone. 1673 J. Dryden Assignation iv. iii. 46 She's most confoundedly ugly. If ever we had come to Love-work, and a Candle had been brought us, I had faln back from that face, like a Buck Rabbet in coupling. 1813 ‘T. Brown’ Intercepted Lett. 23 The Marchesa and he..Have taken much lately to whispering in doorways;..And a house such as mine is, with door-ways so small, Has no room for such cumbersome love-work at all! 1936 G. J. Nathan Theatre of Moment (1970) iii. 44 It is Juliet again who has to do the love work. < as lemmas |
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