| 单词 | rouse-up |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrouse-up 2. figurative. A stir, a shake-up; an upheaval. In later use also (chiefly U.S.): a commotion. Also in rouse-up. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > [noun] winOE disturbance1297 perturbingc1395 motiona1398 stirrage1513 turmoil1526 disquietness1535 buskling1546 jumbling1562 agitation1569 working1575 tumult1580 commotion1592 emotion1594 turbulence1598 bransle1603 pother1603 tumultuousnessa1617 unevennessa1637 unquietudea1639 disquietal1642 tumbling1660 disquietude1709 rouse1764 maelstrom1834 peacelessness1852 stir-up1900 1764 F. Bernard Let. 23 June in E. Channing & A. C. Coolidge Barrington–Bernard Corr. (1912) 76 The late proceedings in Parliament have given such a rouse to the politicians in this Country. 1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller I. 61 He revolutionized the whole establishment, and gave it such a rouse that the very house reeled with it. 1875 Pall Mall Gaz. 13 Dec. 5/2 Lights me a squib up of paper and powder,..And chucks it, to give their trading a rouse, Full i' the midst o' the market-house. 1916 C. Sandburg Chicago Poems 125 A great soprano leading a chorus Carried along in a rouse of voices. 1974 S. Terkel Working v. 269 The other day we had a big rouse-up. Who's getting the best orders, who's not? 1987 R. A. Tucker & W. L. Liefeld Daughters of Church vi. 213/2 There was a rouse of emulations and persecutions, so many that I cannot even count. < as lemmas |
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