单词 | boys play |
释义 | boys' playn. Now rare. Play or activity befitting a boy; (hence) something trivial or easy to accomplish; = child's play n. Also: an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > easiness > [noun] > that which is easy ball play?c1225 child's gamec1380 boys' play1538 walkover1861 picnic1870 pudding1884 cakewalk1886 pie1886 cinch1888 snipa1890 pushover1891 pinch1897 sitter1898 pipe1902 five-finger exercise1903 duck soup1912 pud1917 breeze1928 kid stuff1929 soda1930 piece of cake1936 doddle1937 snack1941 stroll1942 piece of piss1949 waltz1968 the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > that which is unimportant > of little importance or trivial gnatc1000 ball play?c1225 smalla1250 triflec1290 fly1297 child's gamec1380 motec1390 mitec1400 child's playc1405 trufferyc1429 toyc1450 curiosity1474 fly-winga1500 neither mass nor matins1528 boys' play1538 nugament1543 knack?1544 fable1552 nincety-fincety1566 mouse1584 molehill1590 coot1594 scoff1594 nidgery1611 pin matter1611 triviality1611 minuity1612 feathera1616 fillip1621 rattle1622 fiddlesticka1625 apex1625 rush candle1628 punctilio1631 rushlight1635 notchet1637 peppercorn1638 petty John1640 emptiness1646 fool-fangle1647 nonny-no1652 crepundian1655 fly-biting1659 pushpin1660 whinny-whanny1673 whiffle1680 straw1692 two and a plack1692 fiddle1695 trivial1715 barley-strawa1721 nothingism1742 curse1763 nihility1765 minutia1782 bee's knee1797 minutiae1797 niff-naff1808 playwork1824 floccinaucity1829 trivialism1830 chicken feed1834 nonsensical1842 meemaw1862 infinitesimality1867 pinfall1868 fidfad1875 flummadiddle1882 quantité négligeable1885 quotidian1902 pipsqueak1905 hickey1909 piddle1910 cream puff1920 squat1934 administrivia1937 chickenshit1938 cream puff1938 diddly-squat1963 non-issue1965 Tinkertoy1972 the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > that which is unimportant > insubstantial > childish puerilityc1475 boys' play1538 1538 T. Elyot Dict. Populatia, boyes playes. 1545 J. Bale Mysterye Inyquyte P. Pantolabus f. 49v This [sc. declynynge of pronownes] was in the olde tyme but boyes playe in the gramer scoles, and now it is taken vp for hygh diuynite in the consistorye scoles of the papistes. 1579 L. Tomson tr. J. Calvin Serm. Epist. S. Paule to Timothie & Titus 246/1 To make this allegorie, is but a boyes play. 1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 v. iv. 75 You shall find no boyes play here I can tel you. View more context for this quotation 1627 W. Hawkins Apollo Shroving ii. iv. 33 Gingle hee's growne so proud, he tells mee hee's not for boyes play now. 1672 A. Marvell Rehearsal Transpros'd i. 249 Princes..are past such boyes-play. 1720 T. Gordon Humourist II. 197 But ours is meer Boys-play to this. 1792 G. Colman Surrender of Calais i. 21 Love is boys' play. A soldier has not time for't. 1812 L. Hunt in Examiner 21 Dec. 814/1 Most of his tragedies..are little better than so much gigantic boy's-play. 1873 B. Harte Mliss xxxviii. 112 He remembered having been engaged in a battle, compared to which his previous encounters were but boys' play. 1900 M. A. Hanna Let. 2 Aug. in C. G. Dawes Jrnl. McKinley Years (1950) vii. 240 I think I am entitled to the support of all departments for this is no boys' play this year. 1955 R. T. Peterson & J. Fisher Wild Amer. 14 Mere bird listing..was boys' play, he said; he was interested in the more scientific aspects of bird watching. 1971 Italica 48 38 Where a joust is boys' play, great deeds and eternal fame are the affairs of heroes. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1538 |
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