| 单词 | on the root |
| 释义 | > as lemmason the root 1. colloquial. The action of turning up or rummaging (root v.2 1, 3), esp. in on the root. Also: an act or instance of this.In quot. 1846 perhaps: a shake-up. ΚΠ 1846 Saddles to Rags in J. H. Dixon Anc. Poems, Ballads, & Songs 129 I can give these old bones a root. 1892 D. Jordan On Surrey Hills (ed. 2) 56 Fur, fish, and feather need all look alive when Toby was on the root. 1895 Month Oct. 248 One of our rustic friends had a sow, with a litter of pigs, out on the root, as he termed it. 1905 J. Walker Pigs for Profit (new ed.) xxvii. 79 A pig..thrives more kindly when not so much on the root as the unrung one is. 1945 in B. A. Botkin Treasury Southern Folklore (1949) i. ii. 56 If all the hogs in Texas were one big hog, he would be able to dig the Panama Canal in three roots. 2008 Wales on Sunday (Nexis) 24 Aug. (Features) 28 Having a bit of a root through his neighbour's rubbish. < as lemmas |
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