单词 | pap with a hatchet |
释义 | > as lemmaspap with a hatchet ΚΠ 1568 Newe Comedie Iacob & Esau v. x. sig. G.iij I would he were rocked or dandled in your lappe: Or I would with this fauchon I might geue him pap.] 1579 J. Stubbs Discouerie Gaping Gulf sig. E8 Had not Lignerolls mouth ben stopped with papp and the hatchet as they say. 1587 J. Bridges Def. Govt. Church of Eng. 151 When Herod bathed the infants in their owne bloud..did God meane, they should have such Pappe with an Hatchet, and that Princes should be nourses on that fashion? 1589 J. Lyly (title) Pappe with an hatchet... Or Cracke me this nut. Or A countrie cuffe, that is, a sound boxe of the eare, for the idiot Martin to hold his peace. 1594 J. Lyly Mother Bombie i. iii. sig. B3 They giue vs pap with a spoon before we can speake, and when we speake for that wee loue, pap with a hatchet. a1612 J. Harington Epigrams (1615) sig. D4 You sucke out bloud, and bite your nurses teats. Learne, learne, to aske your milke, for if you snatch it, The nurse must send your babes pap with a hatchet. 1615 A. Niccholes Disc. Marriage & Wiving ix. 30 He that so old seekes for a nurse so yong, shall haue pappe with a Hatchet for his comfort. 1719 in T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth IV. 329 A Custard was to him, Pap with a Hatchet. 1809 W. Oldys & T. Park in Harleian Misc. II. 171 (note) ‘Pap with a hatchet’ seems to have been a cant phrase for doing a kind thing in an unkind manner, as it would be, so to feed an infant.] < as lemmas |
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