| 单词 | sitter-up |
| 释义 | > as lemmassitter-up sitter-up n. [after to sit up at sit v. Phrasal verbs 1] ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > bed related to sleep or rest > [noun] > one who stays up sitter-up1620 1620 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Phylaster ii. 22 Not abed Ladyes, yare good sitters vp. 1797 J. Woodforde Diary 19 May (1931) V. 38 Ben & Sally sat up with me to night. Sally a bad Sitter up indeed. 1813 C. Lamb in Philanthropist Jan. 49 They were men of boisterous spirits, sitters up a-nights, disputants, drunken. 1872 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch IV. vii. lxxi. 161 There's them can pay for hospitals..choose to be sitters-up night and day. 1907 Daily Mail 19 Aug. 6/4 Even King Edward, one of the most indefatigable of ‘sitters-up’, sends himself..to bed at hours that would astound his subjects at home. 1973 Times 25 May 12/4 A bedhead all ready to protect the wall from sitters-up in bed. < as lemmas |
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