单词 | best thanks |
释义 | > as lemmasbest thanks a. thanks: a much abbreviated expression of gratitude for a favour received or recognition of a service; = I give you my thanks, my thanks to you, or the like. Also many thanks, best thanks. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > gratitude > thanks [interjection] gramercyc1330 mercyc1390 thanks1598 kew1939 cheers1976 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. ii. 551 If your Ladishyp would say thankes Pompey, I had done. Lady. Great thankes great Pompey. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) ii. i. 30 Macb. Good repose the while. Banq. Thankes Sir: the like to you! View more context for this quotation 1647 H. Peacham Worth of Peny 14 He answers you with Monosyllables,..Yes, No, That, Thankes, True, &c. 1803 S. Sheriffe Forest of Hohenelbe I. 167 Thanks, Baron, for your good wishes. 1803 W. Pitt in G. Rose Diaries (1860) II. 16 Many thanks for your letter. 1866 E. FitzGerald More Lett. (1901) 82 Don't you dislike the way some People have of saying perpetually ‘Thanks!’ instead of ‘Thank you’?.. It is like cutting Acknowledgment as short as possible... Thanks [is] about one of the most hideous monosyllables, even in the English Language. 1870 M. Bridgman Robert Lynne II. xiv. 299 ‘Would you like to read the letter, Robert?’ ‘No, thanks’. < as lemmas |
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