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单词 bear play
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bear playn.

Brit. /ˈbɛː pleɪ/, U.S. /ˈbɛ(ə)r ˌpleɪ/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: bear n.1, play n.
Etymology: < bear n.1 + play n.With sense 2 compare to play the bear at bear n.1 Phrases 2.
1. The action of bears in playing or fighting; a fight involving bears, arranged as a form of entertainment. Cf. bear-baiting n. 1a. Obsolete.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting or baiting animals > animal baiting > [noun] > bear-baiting
bear playa1400
bear-baitingc1400
bear fight1550
bear baitc1590
a1400 in F. J. Furnivall Polit., Relig., & Love Poems (1903) 266 (MED) War þe from þe bere plei, auantir last he bite.
1699 W. Pinkethman Love without Interest iv. 30 For when things are so far advanc'd, Jealousie's as unseasonable as a Song or Dance brought in Head and Shoulders, to lengthen out or set off a scanty-witted Bear-Play.
1729 Daily Post 16 Jan. The whole Criticism and Nature of Bear-Hunting and of Bear-Gardens; to explain that text, and avoid Bears..and all the Bear-play, rough and smooth.
2. figurative. Rough, boisterous play or behaviour. Now rare.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > violent behaviour > [noun] > rough or boisterous
boisterousness1589
rough and tumble1810
rowdyism1838
vandemonianism1863
bear play1867
robustiousness1894
push and shove1895
roughhousing1902
1867 C. Stevens Mark Rushton ix, in Boys of Eng. 14 Dec. 57/1 The greater part of the boisterous crew were sky-larking and tumbling about in rough bear play.
1883 Pall Mall Gaz. 14 June That the university would not degrade itself in the eyes of the visitors by bear-play.
2006 S. Williams Wind Rider ix. 125 Enough bear play or my pots will all be broken and little toes burned in the coals!
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2020; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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