单词 | baubling |
释义 | † baublingn. Obsolete. rare. Unimportant, purposeless activity. Cf. bauble n. 3d. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > inaction > idleness, lack of occupation or activity > [noun] > trifling activity or time-wasting loitering1362 triflinga1382 dalliance1567 piddling1580 baubling1608 idlement1622 concessation1623 paddling1642 sauntering1680 puddling1695 dawdle1813 dawdling1819 puttering1835 pottering1844 peddling1851 tiddlywinking1869 loiter1876 frivolling1882 potter1897 muckings1898 futzing1907 piffling1914 fucking1931 monkeying1932 muck-about1968 twatting1989 1608 R. Armin Nest of Ninnies sig. B4 That musically fret their time out in idle baubling. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2022). † baublingadj. Obsolete. 1. Small, trifling, insignificant. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adjective] > paltry, mean, or contemptible unworthlyc1230 wretcha1250 seely1297 vilec1320 not worth a cress (kerse)1377 the value of a rushc1380 threadbarec1412 wretched1450 miserable?a1513 rascal1519 prettya1522 not worth a whistlea1529 pegrall1535 plack1539 pelting1540 scald1542 sleeveless1551 baggage1553 paltering1553 piddling1559 twopenny1560 paltry1565 rubbish1565 baggagely1573 pelfish1577 halfpenny1579 palting1579 baubling1581 three-halfpenny1581 pitiful1582 triobolar1585 squirting1589 not worth a lousea1592 hedge1596 cheap1597 peddling1597 dribbling1600 mean1600 rascally1600 three-farthingc1600 draughty1602 dilute1605 copper1609 peltry?a1610 threepenny1613 pelsy1631 pimping1640 triobolary1644 pigwidgeon1647 dustya1649 fiddling1652 puddlinga1653 insignificant1658 piteous1667 snotty1681 scrubbed1688 dishonourable1699 scrub1711 footy1720 fouty1722 rubbishing1731 chuck-farthing1748 rubbishy1753 shabby1753 scrubby1754 poxya1758 rubbishly1777 waff-like1808 trinkety1817 meanish1831 one-eyed1843 twiddling1844 measly1847 poking1850 picayunish1852 vild1853 picayune1856 snide1859 two-cent1859 rummagy1872 faddling1883 finicking1886 slushy1889 twopence halfpenny1890 jerk1893 pissy1922 crappy1928 two-bit1932 piddly1933 chickenshit1934 pissing1937 penny packet1943 farkakte1960 pony1964 gay1978 1581 C. Thimelthorpe Short Inuentory Certayne Idle Inuentions sig. B2 By the smalest booke that can be written, by ye most babling ballet that can be made,..his strange and wonderful works in man,..shew themselues as by the greatest volume yt euer was written. a1635 R. Sibbes Bowels Opened (1639) xvii. 394 We love a story, any trifling baubling thing concerning our ordinary callings, better then divine truth. 1731 ‘A. Scriblerus’ Gorgoneicon 101 Do not be playing with your bawbling Snuff-boxes. 1791 J. Learmont Poems Pastoral 253 Away, ye cheating vanities of earth! Ye baubling dreams, that tantalize the vain! 2. spec. Designating a small or flimsy boat. Cf. bauble n. 3c, bauble boat.In later use probably echoing quot. a1616. ΚΠ a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) (Ded.) v. i. 50 A bawbling Vessell was he Captaine of. View more context for this quotation 1821 W. Scott Pirate (1822) II. i. 26 The crews of those baubling shallops. 1849 T. De Quincey Eng. Mail-coach in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 496/2 Even to tease the coasts of our enemy,..to insult them by capturing if it were but a baubling schooner [etc.]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2022). < n.1608adj.1581 |
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