单词 | outcrack |
释义 | † outcrackv. Obsolete. transitive. To make a louder crack or noise than; to outdo in boasting or in showiness. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > boasting or boastfulness > utter boastfully [verb (transitive)] > boast more than out-brag1545 outcrack1592 1592 Greenes Groats-worth of Witte sig. D3 Furnish himselfe with more Crownes, least hee were outcrackt with new commers. 1602 2nd Pt. Returne fr. Parnassus i. vi. 498 Hang him whose verse cannot out-belch the wind:..Cannot out~cracke the scarr-crow thunderbolt. 1606 J. Marston Parasitaster iv. F iij b Heele out cracke a Germaine when hee is drunke. a1666 R. Fanshawe tr. Virgil Fourth Booke Æneis in Shorter Poems & Transl. (1964) 45 Hot-spurre Iulus on his mettl'd horse Out-cracking all, now these, now those men past. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online September 2020). < v.1592 |
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