单词 | riley |
释义 | Rileyn. colloquial (originally U.S.). the life of Riley: an enviably enjoyable, luxurious, or carefree existence. Esp. in to live the life of Riley. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > [noun] > prosperous conditions > the good things of life > enjoyment of the life of Riley1911 1911 Hartford (Connecticut) Courant 6 Dec. 1/6 After ‘living the life of Riley’ for over a year, successfully evading the pitchforks and the bullets of the farmers,..the cow today fell victim to a masterfully arranged trap. 1918 Lowell (Mass.) Sun 16 Jan. 5/3 We live like princes or, as they say here [sc. at Camp Devens, Mass.], ‘the life of Riley’. 1923 E. L. Rice Adding Machine vi. 85 This is the life of Riley all right. 1949 J. B. Priestley Delight 7 The life of Reilly, which some people imagine me to lead, has been further away than a fading dream. 1965 J. Porter Dover Two vi. 70 The native cunning which had enabled him to live the life of Riley with no visible means of support..failed him dismally now. 2006 Philadelphia May 73/3 Jake lives the life of Riley: all he has to do is get himself to school and mow the lawn and play an occasional bit of saxophone, and in return we buy him everything his heart desires. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). rileyadj. Originally and chiefly U.S. regional. 1. Of liquids, esp. water: turbid, muddy, cloudy. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > pollution or defilement > [adjective] > full of sediment fata1387 puddled1559 roiled1611 roil1658 scuddy1797 riley1805 roily1823 riled1830 1805 J. Ordway Jrnl. 30 June in Wisconsin Hist. Coll. (1916) XXII. 240 [The water was] verry riley and bad tasted. 1827 P. Cunningham Two Years New S. Wales II. xxi. 62 An American landlord..brought in a jug of water and apologized for its being so riley. 1850 Pangborn Diary in Amer. Hist. Rev. (1903) 9 105 Got more black rily Coffee and eat sea Bread. 1861 G. Catlin Life amongst Indians ii. 16 The mud and water in the Lick still riley with their recent steps. 1921 L. Hulit Fishing with Boy v. 77 We can only gig up-stream; the water is too riley to work back. 1993 D. Hall Life Work 90 The hurricane left the gravity-well..thick with debris, too sluggish to flow and too riley to drink. 2007 R. L. Fletcher Drift Boats & River Dories i. 7/1 The impact would..most likely pitch one or more occupants into the McKenzie's riley, cold water. 2. Angry, cross; irritable, bad-tempered. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > irritability > irritable [adjective] sharpc1000 impatient1377 out-sharpinga1382 teethya1500 fumish1523 testy1526 crabbed1535 tettish1567 peevish1577 kickish1589 splenetic1593 spleenful1594 tetchy1596 wasp-stung1598 touchy1602 spleeny1604 pruriginous1609 teety1621 splenitive1633 peltish1648 irritable1662 splenatic1663 splenetive1678 unheer1691 rusty1694 nettlesome1766 stingy1781 snarly1798 tutty1809 spleenical1818 rileya1824 nettly1825 edgy1837 porcupinal1846 shirty1846 raspish1854 peckish1857 streaky1860 owly1864 teasy1866 fussy1869 raspy1869 spiky1881 chippyc1885 tetchous1890 narky1895 snarky1906 ringy1907 snarkish1912 Scot1916 crooked1945 niggly1952 snooty1959 kvetchy1965 to be on the rag1967 sandpaper1976 gribble1984 splenous- a1824 J. Guild Jrnl. in Proc. Vermont Hist. Soc. (1937) 3 256 This made the old man some ryly. 1843 J. S. Robb Streaks Squatter Life 64 The boys and gals kept it up so strong, laffin at my scrape.., that I gin to get riley. 1867 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 404 The Americans..speak of an ill-tempered person as being riley. 1898 P. L. Dunbar Folks from Dixie 85 Won't she be riley when she fin's out how mistaken she is? 1967 in Dict. Amer. Regional Eng. (2002) IV. 583/1 [Oregon] Riley [applied to a cow with a bad temper]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1911adj.1805 |
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