请输入您要查询的英文单词:

 

单词 tave
释义

tavev.

/teɪv/
Forms: Also 1600s tauve, 1700s–1800s taave, 1800s teave.
Origin: Apparently a borrowing from early Scandinavian.
Etymology: apparently of Norse origin: compare Norwegian dialect tava to toil or struggle without much effect, to fumble, be exhausted.
Now dialect.
intransitive. To move the limbs ineffectually, to sprawl; to strike out at random with the arms or legs; to throw oneself about, as a person in a passion, in a fever, etc.; to act violently in any way; to strive, toil, labour, or struggle in work, difficult walking, etc.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > move irregularly or be agitated [verb (intransitive)] > struggle
witherc1000
wrest?c1225
tavec1350
strivea1398
scamble1591
the world > action or operation > manner of action > effort or exertion > exert oneself or make an effort [verb (intransitive)] > toil
sweatc897
swingc1000
swinkOE
travailc1275
carka1350
tavec1350
to-swinkc1386
labourc1390
byswenke?a1400
tevelc1400
toilc1400
pingle1511
carp1522
moilc1529
turmoil1548
mucker1566
tug1619
tuggle1650
fatigue1695
hammer1755
fag1772
bullock1888
slog1888
to sweat one's guts out1890
schlep1937
slug1943
c1350 St. Mary Magd. 401 in Horstm. Altengl. Leg. (1881) 85 Sethin it [the child] swelid and turned & tauyd.
c1460 (?c1400) Tale of Beryn l. 2061 Sith yee of hym be sesid, howe evir so yee [? read hee] taue, Let hym nevir pas.
1566 T. Drant tr. Horace Medicinable Morall sig. Aiiij Where now and then (O iust rewarde) In raginge surge sum taues.
1674 J. Ray N. Countrey Words in Coll. Eng. Words 47 To Tave; Lincoln. to rage.
1682 E. Hickeringill Black Non-Conformist Postscr. sig. X2v Him that bespoke a Picture of a Horse lying (tauveing) upon his Back.
1691 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Words (ed. 2) 73 Sick People are said to tave with the Hands when they catch at any thing.
1790 A. Wheeler Westmorland Dial. 43 I wur sae teerd wie maanderin up an dawn an teaavin ith Dirt, I laaid me dawn on a breaad Scar, an sean fel asleep.
1825 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words Taving, irregular motion; picking the bed-clothes in febrile delirium.
1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Tave, to kick with the feet like a distracted person.
1855 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Yorks. Words 176 To Teeave, to paw and sprawl with the arms and legs.
1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles I. xii. 159 See how I've got to teave and slave, and your poor weak father with his heart clogged like a dripping-pan.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
<
v.c1350
随便看

 

英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2004-2022 Newdu.com All Rights Reserved
更新时间:2025/1/12 3:07:54