单词 | sam hill |
释义 | Sam Hilln. North American slang. A euphemism for hell; used especially in expressions of impatience or irritation preceded by in or the with an interrogative word. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > hell > [noun] helleOE hellOE perditiona1382 perishingc1384 welling woea1400 hellwardc1400 Topheta1425 gehenne1481 to devilwardc1550 limbo1581 Averna1592 Hades1597 Sheol1599 other place1604 underworld1608 infernals1613 gehenna1623 lower world1639 netherworld1640 pandemonium1667 subterrenea1711 diablerie1776 inferno1834 ballyhooly1837 nether region1839 Sam Hill1839 Ballyhack1843 tunket1871 bogydom1880 1839 Havana (New York) Republican 21 Aug. 1/4 What in sam hill is that feller ballin' about? 1868 J. T. Trowbridge Three Scouts vi. 26 When you might a'married!—why in Sam Hill didn't ye, then? 1894 ‘M. Twain’ in St. Nicholas Jan. 257/2 Hateful people..giving me Sam Hill because I shirked. 1909 N.Y. Evening Post. 10 Apr. (Sat. Suppl.) 3/5 How in Sam Hill can she do it? She's just as hot when she gets to bilin' p'int as she'll ever be. 1918 M. E. Freeman Edgewater People 314 What in Sam Hill made you treat him so durned mean fur? 1927 W. R. James Cow Country 77 What the Sam Hill do you think we are out here, servants? 1948 Salt Lake Tribune 18 Dec. 10/7 He wondered who the Sam Hill the ‘senator’ was. 1962 H. Green Time to pass Over xii. 147 Why in the samhill didn't you step in and stop them, Mike. 1973 B. Broadfoot Ten Lost Years xxiii. 262 He probably never could have figured what the Sam Hill was going on. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1982; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1839 |
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