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单词 thorough-go-nimble
释义

thorough-go-nimblen.

Forms: see thorough- prefix, go v., and nimble adj., adv., and n.; also 1800s tharragonimble (Suffolk).
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: thorough- prefix, go v., nimble adv.
Etymology: < thorough- prefix + go v. + nimble adv. Compare through-go v., wherry-go-nimble n., and jerry-go-nimble n. at jerry n.1 Compounds.Compare also English regional (Cornwall) flurry-go-nimble diarrhoea (19th cent.), apparently showing an alteration of this word after flurry n.
slang. Obsolete.
1. Looseness of the bowels, diarrhoea. Cf. wherry-go-nimble n. 1.
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1694 P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 5th Bk. Wks. Pantagr. Prognost. 231 Those who are troubled with the Thoro'-go-nimble or Wild-squirt, will often prostitute their Blind cheeks to the Bog-house.
1778 Tailors iii. v. 37 Oh, I am grip'd!—the working jalap runs Like thoro'-go-nimble thro' my twisted guts!
1823 E. Moor Suffolk Words 425 Tharragonimble, a diarrhœa.
1825 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words Thorough-go-nimble, a diarrhœa.
2. Small beer. rare.
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1821 W. Scott Pirate I. iv. 74 The small beer of the college, commonly there termed ‘thorough go nimble’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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