单词 | than common |
释义 | > as lemmasthan (or as) common P3. than (or as) common: than (or as) is common; than (or as) usual. Now rare (chiefly U.S. regional in later use). ΚΠ a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) i. iii. 114 Because that I am more then common tall. View more context for this quotation 1684 P. Ker Flosculum Poeticum 59 The year is more than common kinde to him, who puls ripe Grapes, before the vintage come. 1798 Weekly Mag. 17 Feb. 73/1 The liquors, were better preserved and cooler than common. 1803 E. Drinker Diary 25 Oct. (1991) III. 1699 I..have been busy as common, sewing and reading. 1883 A. E. Sweet & J. A. Knox On Mexican Mustang (1884) 44 He had sort o' aggravated me more than common that morning. 1915 Amer. Bee Jrnl. Oct. 337/1 In the partridge pea belt the yield..is as good as common, if not a little better. c1960 Wilson Coll. in Dict. Amer. Regional Eng. (1985) I. at Common I'm as well as common. < as lemmas |
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