单词 | selp |
释义 | s'elpadv. ‘So help’, in the oath ‘So help me God’: see so adv. and conj. 19. Now only colloquial, often in jocularly altered forms. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > malediction > oaths > [interjection] > religious oaths (referring to God) > egad by Goda1225 deusc1300 s'elpa1330 by Gogc1400 Gog of heavena1500 by cock?1548 mort dieua1593 (God) refuse me1596 God damn me1619 adad1664 agad1672 igad1672 egad1673 adod1676 ecod1677 gadso1677 ydadc1680 goles1734 s'gad1743 by (or my) gumc1815 gorblimey1896 a1330 Otuel 308 Quaþ roulond, þar he stod on grounde, ‘Selpe me gode’. a1330 Otuel 879 Ȝef ani sarazin wiþ eie, Comeþ to lette me of mi weie, Selp me god & þis day, He sschal abugge, ȝef ich may. 1842 R. H. Barham Dead Drummer in Ingoldsby Legends 2nd Ser. 206 His jaw-work would never, I'm sure, s'elp me Bob, Have come for to go for to do sich a job. 1888 R. Kipling Soldiers Three 74 Slane knelt down, and murmured: —‘S'elp me, I believe 'e's dead’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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