单词 | something like unto |
释义 | > as lemmassomething like unto a. In some way like; in a way similar to; (more widely) almost, approximately; very nearly. In early use also †something like unto. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > quality of being satisfactory > [adjective] wellOE sufferablea1340 worthy1340 sufficient1489 paregala1500 competent1535 something like?1556 right1567 sweet1577 fairish1611 all right1652 fair1656 comfortable1658 decent1711 respectable1750 unrepulsive1787 decentisha1814 fair-to-middling1822 fine1828 christena1838 OK1839 tidy1844 not (or none) so dusty?1856 sweet1898 oke1928 okey-doke1934 okey-dokey1936 tickety-boo1939 cool1951 aight1993 ?1556 J. Cancellar Pathe of Obed. sig. B.iiii Yet Loth his wyfe being sumthynge lyke vnto Eue. 1560 T. Gresham in J. W. Burgon Life & Times Sir T. Gresham (1839) I. 310 Wherebye a maye meynteyne hymselfe somethinge like your eldest son. 1598 R. P. tr. M. Martínez Sixth Bk. Myrrour of Knighthood xx. sig. Mm3v Thou speakest something like a Knight said the Prisoner, but I hope to punish thee, for maintaining such false cowards as these are. 1666 J. Bunyan Grace Abounding §32 My great Conversion from prodigious Profaneness to something like a Moral Life. 1765 Treat. Domest. Pigeons 126 The feathers on the breast open, and reflect both ways, expanding itself something like a rose. 1798 T. Twining Let. 11 Dec. in Recreations & Stud. (1882) 231 Often have I heard you something like blamed for these voluntary labours. 1811 H. M. Brackenridge Jrnl. 17 June in Views Louisiana (1814) 251 The women..amuse themselves with a game something like jack-stones. 1883 Manch. Examiner 22 Nov. 5/4 The Parcel Post is being conducted at a loss of something like £10,000 a week. 1963 J. E. Keating Wreck of Deutschland 10 I noted something like fifty words or phrasings..which echo the Bible. 2005 Independent 27 Oct. 47/3 The sessions go something like this: first, apply mousse to damp hair. Then choose your rollers. < as lemmas |
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