| 单词 | od rot it |
| 释义 | > as lemmasod rot it (me, them, etc.) In imprecatory phrases, as od rabbit it [compare rabbit v.1] , od rat it [compare rat v.3] , od rot it (me, them, etc.) [compare rot v. 6] , od save's [compare god n. and int. Phrases 1c(b)(ii), save v. Phrases 2c] , etc. Now archaic or regional. N.E.D. (1902) notes that such phrases are ‘still common dialectally from Cumbria to I. of Wight, Kent, and Devon’. ΚΠ 1701 T. D'Urfey Bath i. i. 9 I do business for my Lord, but odrabit it tell him I belong to my self. 1723 S. Centlivre Artifice iii. 49 Odsave me! Dud I hit yow, Zir? 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones VI. xvii. iii. 99 When we imagined we had a Fox to deal with, Od-rat-it, it turns out to be a Badger. View more context for this quotation 1763 ‘T. Bobbin’ Toy-shop (new ed.) To Rdr. p. x Od rottle the; whot seys to! has to foryeat'n th' Tealier finding th' Urchon; an th' Rimes! 1775 R. B. Sheridan Rivals i. i Odd rabbit it! when the fashion had got foot on the Bar, I guess'd 'twould mount to the Box! 1802 ‘P. Pindar’ Middlesex Election iii, in Wks. (1816) IV. 195 To take a body's name away—Oddrat their lying chucks! 1803 R. Tannahill Soldier's Return 27 Oddsaffs! my heart neer did wallop cadgier. 1812 H. Smith & J. Smith Rejected Addr. 52 What are they fear'd on, fools! 'od rot 'em! a1849 E. A. Poe Thou art Man in Wks. (1850) II. 420 Mr Shuttleworthy had a sad habit of swearing, although he seldom went beyond ‘Od rot me’, or ‘By gosh’, or ‘By the jolly golly’. 1858 R. B. Brough Siege of Troy iv. 19 By Jove and Mars, they're at it! Twenty to one on Paris! Eh? 'Od rat it. 1881 H. Smith & C. R. Smith Isle of Wight Words Odd rot it, an exclamation. 1883 A. S. Swan Aldersyde ii.iv. 221 'Od save us a', that'll be an unco handfu'. 1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles III. xlvi. 114 'Od rot the women—now 'tis one thing, and then 'tis another. 1919 S. J. Weyman Great House xxxi. 285 ‘Peel, 'od rot him!’ cried the majority, ‘might shift as often as his own spinning-jenny!’ 1961 R. Hodgson Coll. Poems 161 Give him wit..magpies jackdaws jays Or crows, and he could cope or quit And all good friends: od rabbit it, He loved the vermin! < as lemmas |
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