| 单词 | old wives' fables |
| 释义 | > as lemmasold wives' (women's) fables c. A foolish or ridiculous story; idle talk, nonsense; esp. in old wives' (women's) fables (archaic). Also †to take (something) for fable, to hold at fable (transl. Old French tenir a fable). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > empty, idle talk > [noun] windc1290 trotevalea1300 follyc1300 jangle1340 jangleryc1374 tongue1382 fablec1384 clapa1420 babbling?c1430 clackc1440 pratinga1470 waste?a1475 clattera1500 trattle1513 babble?a1525 tattlea1529 tittle-tattlea1529 chatc1530 babblery1532 bibble-babble1532 slaverings1535 trittle-trattle1563 prate?1574 babblement1595 pribble-prabble1595 pribble1603 morologya1614 pibble-pabblea1616 sounda1616 spitter-spatter1619 argology1623 vaniloquence1623 vaniloquy1623 drivelling1637 jabberment1645 blateration1656 onology1670 whittie-whattiea1687 stultiloquence1721 claver1722 blether1786 havera1796 jaunder1796 havering1808 slaver1825 yatter1827 bugaboo1833 flapdoodle1834 bavardage1835 maunder1835 tattlement1837 slabber1840 gup1848 faddle1850 chatter1851 cock1851 drivel1852 maundering1853 drooling1854 windbaggery1859 blither1866 javer1869 mush1876 slobber1886 guff1888 squit1893 drool1900 macaroni1924 jive1928 natter1943 shtick1948 old talk1956 yack1958 yackety-yack1958 ole talk1964 Haigspeak1981 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > fabrication of statement or story > a false or foolish tale > [noun] spellc888 triflea1250 talea1325 vanity1340 a tale of waltrot1377 fablec1384 niflec1395 triflerya1400 truffc1430 jest1488 winter's talec1555 winter story1646 galley-packet1786 galley-yarn1874 cuffer1887 ploda1903 scuttlebutt yarn1918 just-so story1922 c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) 1 Tim. iv. 7 Schonye thou vncouenable fablis and veyn [a1425 L.V. vncouenable fablis, and elde wymmenus fablis]. c1430 Pilgr. Lyf Manhode (1869) ii. xxi. 83 Wolt þou holde þe gospel at fable? 1508 Bp. J. Fisher Wks. (1876) 85 In the whiche confessyon we may not tell fables and other mennes fautes. 1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. cclxxxviii. 430 Syluester toke it for no fable. 1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning i. sig. F2v After a..time..they [sc. narrations of miracles] grew to be esteemed, but as old wiues fables . View more context for this quotation 1721 J. Strype Eccl. Memorials III. App. xx. 56 [We] distorted them into old wives fables. < as lemmas |
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