单词 | sov |
释义 | sovn.1 colloquial. = sovereign n. 4b. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > English coins > [noun] > coin of twenty shillings goldfinch1602 Harry sovereign1615 piece1631 jingle-boya1640 yellow boy1654 quid1661 marigold1663 broad-piece1678 pound piecea1715 gold penny1736 sovereign1817 dragon1827 sov1829 chip?1836 couter1846 thick 'un1848 monarch1851 James1858 skiv1858 Victoria1870 goblin1887 red one1890 Jimmy1899 quidlet1902 Jimmy O'Goblin1931 pound coin1931 1829 P. Egan Boxiana New Ser. II. 492 ‘Come,’ said an old ring-goer, ‘here's my sov. to begin.’ 1846 ‘Lord Chief Baron’ Swell's Night Guide (new ed.) 101 But of whatever size if a known gentleman and some liberality (as nothing less than five sovs would be any inducement) you may perhaps get admittance in the absence of her keeper. 1850 New Monthly Mag. 90 310 As to the purse, there wern't above three or four sovs in it. 1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days i. v. 100 She gave me half-a-sov this half. 1883 Harper's Mag. Mar. 647/2 I slipped a sov. in the paw of the major~general. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2019). Sovn.2 colloquial. = Soviet n. 2. Usually in plural with the. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Russia, the Russian Empire, or the Soviet Union > [noun] bear1794 Russian Federation1886 Soviet Union1918 Bolshevisia1919 Bolshevy1921 U.S.S.R.1927 narod1938 red land1942 Sov1967 1967 M. Childs Taint of Innocence (1968) ii. 78 The Chicoms versus the Sovs in Kerala Province. 1969 H. H. Cooper Cave with Two Exits ii. 163 Their only worry would be that Washington might think the Sovs had done it. 1977 Time 28 Feb. 23/3 Certainly in every case I know of, the opposition—usually the Sovs but sometimes the Chicoms—were involved up to their eyeballs on the other side. 1981 P. Fox Satan's Messenger ix. 68 ‘Comeback from the Sovs?’ ‘Never heard of you.’ This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < n.11829n.21967 |
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