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单词 stap
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stapn.

Brit. /stap/, U.S. /stæp/, Scottish English /stap/
Forms: 1500s steppe, 1800s staup, stawp, step, stap.
Etymology: Of obscure origin.
Scottish and northern.
A stave of a tub or cask. Chiefly in figurative phrases: see quots.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > vessel > barrel or cask > [noun] > stave
stavea1398
staff1531
stap1587
bung-stave1860
1587 Sc. Acts Jas. VI (1814) III. 522/1 Þat þe steppis of þe said firlot be of þe auld proportione, in thiknes of bayth the burdis, ane insche and ane half.
1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Stap, Steppe, a stave. I'll tak a stap out of your coag, S. Prov., I'll put you on shorter allowance.
1821 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 8 432 But stoups are needed, tubs, and pails, and knaps, For all the old are ‘gisand’ into staps.
1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. (at cited word) To Fa' a' staps, to become extremely debilitated, q. to fall to pieces, like a vessel made of staves.
1825 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words Stap, the stave of a tub.
1829 J. Hogg Shepherd's Cal. I. vi. 170 Else I should take a staup out o' their punch cogs the night.
1846 W. E. Brockett J. T. Brockett's Gloss. North Country Words (ed. 3) II. (at cited word) ‘To take a stap out of your bicker’ means to humble you.
1891 H. Johnston Kilmallie I. 96 It behoved me and the likes o' me to keep a calm sough, if we didna want a step taen oot o' our cog.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

stapv.

Etymology: Representing an affected pronunciation of stop v.Probably the first quot. 1697 is the source of the phrase. Lord Foppington, the speaker, pronounces a for o throughout. Compare Gad n.2, egad int., and the pronunciations ‘Laard’, ‘plaat’ (for Lord, plot) attributed to Titus Oates.
transitive. = stop v., in the phrase stap my vitals, used as an exclamation of surprise, anger, etc., or as an asseveration.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > exclamation of wonder [interjection]
ahaa1400
ocha1522
heydaya1529
ah1538
ah me!a1547
fore me!a1547
o me!a1547
gossea1556
ay me!1591
o (also oh) rare!1596
law1598
strangec1670
lack-a-day1695
stap my vitals1697
alackaday1705
prodigious1707
my word1722
(by) golly1743
gosh1757
Dear me!1805
Madre de Dios1815
Great Jove!1819
I snum1825
crikey1826
my eye1826
crackey1830
snakes1839
Great Scott1852
holy mackerel!1855
whoops1870
this beats my grandmother1883
wow1892
great balls of fire1893
oo-er1909
zowiec1913
crimes1929
yowa1943
wowee1963
Madre mia!1964
yikes1971
whee1978
chingas1984
the mind > language > malediction > oaths > [interjection] > oaths other than religious or obscene > imprecations
woeOE
dahetc1290
confoundc1330
foul (also shame) fall ——c1330
sorrow on——c1330
in the wanianda1352
wildfirea1375
evil theedomc1386
a pestilence on (also upon)c1390
woe betide you (also him, her, etc.)c1390
maldathaita1400
murrainc1400
out ona1415
in the wild waning worldc1485
vengeance?a1500
in a wanion1549
with a wanion1549
woe worth1553
a plague on——a1566
with a wanion to?c1570
with a wanyand1570
bot1584
maugre1590
poxa1592
death1593
rot1594
rot on1595
cancro1597
pax1604
pize on (also upon)1605
vild1605
peascod1606
cargo1607
confusion1608
perditiona1616
(a) pest upon1632
deuce1651
stap my vitals1697
strike me blind, dumb, lucky (if, but—)1697
stop my vitals1699
split me (or my windpipe)1700
rabbit1701
consume1756
capot me!1760
nick me!1760
weary set1788
rats1816
bad cess to1859
curse1885
hanged1887
buggeration1964
1697 J. Vanbrugh Relapse i. 10 Well, 'tis Ten Thousand Pawnd well given—stap my Vitals.
1716–20 Lett. from Mist's Jrnl. (1722) I. 50 Thou art one of the most comical Dogs, stap my Vitals! that ever set Pen to Paper.
1730 H. Fielding Pleasures of Town iii. i, in Author's Farce 34 My Life went out in a Hiss—Stap my Breath.
1730 H. Fielding Pleasures of Town iii. i, in Author's Farce 46 And so all my Puns, and Quibbles, and Conundrums are quite forgetten, stap my Vitals.
1839 W. M. Thackeray Catherine i Stap my vitals, my dear, but there was a lady..who had a hoop as big as a tent.
1901 Graphic Christmas No. 24/2 'Tis a trick of theirs. Stap me, we shall have 'em yet.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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