单词 | mumbudget |
释义 | mumbudgetn.int.adj. A. n. 1. to play (at) mumbudget: to keep silent. Now archaic. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > taciturnity or reticence > be silent/refrain from speaking [verb (intransitive)] to hold one's tonguec897 to keep one's tonguec897 to be (hold oneself) stilla1000 to say littleOE to hold one's mouthc1175 to shut (also close) one's mouthc1175 to keep (one's) silence?c1225 to hold (also have, keep) one's peacea1275 stillc1330 peacec1395 mum1440 to say neither buff nor baff1481 to keep (also play) mum1532 to charm the tonguec1540 to have (also set, keep) a hatch before the door1546 hush1548 to play (at) mumbudgeta1564 not to say buff to a wolf's shadow1590 to keep a still tongue in one's head1729 to sing small1738 to sew up1785 let that fly stick in (or to) the wall1814 to say (also know) neither buff nor stye1824 to choke back1844 mumchance1854 to keep one's trap shut1899 to choke up1907 to belt up1949 to keep (or stay) shtum1958 shtum1958 a1564 T. Becon Displaying Popish Masse in Wks. iii. 47 b Nowe ye playe mumme budget and scilence glumme. 1602 T. Dekker Satiro-mastix sig. I4v Sir Vaughan. Ownds, fiue pound in my name to Mum about withall. Min. I, to Mum withall, but hee playes mum-budget with me. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Demeurer court, to play at Mumbudget, or be at a Nonplus. 1639 Deloney's Gentile Craft: 2nd Pt. (rev. ed.) ii. sig. D Harken hither three dayes hence, and you shall heare more, but in the meane space looke you play mum-budget, and speake not a word of this matter to any creature. 1943 R. Graves Story Marie Powell xxi. 292 He mastered himself and played mum-budget, refraining from a back answer. ΚΠ a1630 J. Taylor Bawd in Wks. (1630) ii. 97 The magazin of taciturnitie, the mumbudget of silens, the cloath~bag of councell. = mum int. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > taciturnity or reticence > taciturnity [interjection] > silence or do not speak muma1500 mum's the word1540 mumbudgeta1566 viaa1616 quiet1814 shuddup1940 ciunas1987 a1566 R. Edwards Damon & Pithias (1571) sig. Ciijv But mumbouget for Carisophus I espie, In haste to come hether. 1584 B. Rich Don Simonides II. sig. Ciij No, mum budget, you are of the holy house, and therefore farre be it from me to reproue you. 1600 Looke about You sig. D Mum budgit not a word as thou louest thy life. 1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. iii. 179 Have these bones rattled, and this head So often in thy quarrel bled? Nor did I ever winch or grudge it, For thy dear sake. (Quoth she) Mum budget. 1678 A. Behn Sir Patient Fancy i. i. 9 Lod. On your life not a syllable. Sir Cre. I'le be rackt first, Mum budget. Silent, mute; = mum adj. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > taciturnity or reticence > [adjective] unspeakinga1382 speechless1390 mutec1400 dumb1406 silenta1425 peaceablec1425 secretc1440 of few wordsa1500 tongue-tied1529 mum1532 closec1540 strait-laced1546 tongue-dumb1556 incommunicable1568 sparing1568 inconversable1577 retentive1599 wordless1604 mumbudget1622 uncommunicable1628 monastica1631 word-bound1644 on (also upon) the reserve1655 strait-mouthed1664 oyster-like1665 incommunicative1670 mumchance1681 speechless1726 taciturnous1727 tongue-tacked1727 monosyllabic1735 silentish1737 untalkative1739 silentious1749 buttoned-up1767 taciturn1771 close as wax1772 untittletattling1779 reticent1825 voiceless1827 say-nothing1838 unremonstrant1841 still1855 unvocal1858 inexpansive186. short-tongued1864 non-communicating1865 tight-lipped1876 unworded1886 chup1896 tongue-bound1906 shut-mouthed1936 zip-lipped1943 shtum1958 1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue i. 146 I was Mum-budget, and durst not open my lips to him..in that businesse. a1641 T. Heywood Captives (1953) iv. i. 80 Bee thou mute, Il bee dombe, thou silent I mum budgett. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). mumbudgetv. English regional (south-western). intransitive. Perhaps: to fuss; to bustle. Chiefly in to come mumbudgeting. Eng. Dial. Dict. s.v. interprets the phrase as meaning ‘to come clandestinely, secretly’: cf. also quot. 1909. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > act or do vigorously [verb (intransitive)] > be brisk or active > bustle buskle1545 bustle1548 buffle1610 buzz1638 fettle1745 fluster1808 spufflea1825 fly (a)round1833 scrimmage1833 to come mumbudgeting1872 whew1873 spry1885 1872 T. Hardy Under Greenwood Tree I. ii. ii. 143 There was this to be said for him, that you were quite sure he'd never come mumbudgeting to see ye, just as you were in the middle of your work, and put you out with his anxious trouble about you. 1872 T. Hardy Under Greenwood Tree II. iv. ii. 110 Now, don't come mumbudgeting so close again. 1909 Daily Chron. 30 Apr. 6/5 In Mr. Hardy's ‘Under the Greenwood Tree’..mumbudgeting..seems to mean rather ‘fussily’, a sense in which the word budget is still used in the Midlands. 1939 N. Marsh Overture to Death xiii. 139 Whatever be the matter with you, then, mum-budgeting so close to my apron strings? This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.int.adj.a1564v.1872 |
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