| 单词 | to be blown upon |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto be blown upon 30. to blow up(on) (a person or thing) has been used in various senses (see 30a); among others: To take the bloom off; to make stale or hackneyed; to bring into discredit, defame; also, to tell tales of, inform upon, expose (cf. 27). With indirect passive, to be blown upon (see 30b). In this latter sense the simple blow also occurs transitively (see 30c). extracted from blowv.1 a. ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > informing on or against > inform on or against [verb (transitive)] wrayc725 meldeOE bimeldena1300 forgabc1394 to blow up?a1400 outsay?a1400 detectc1449 denounce1485 ascry1523 inform1526 promote1550 peach1570 blow1575 impeach1617 wheedle1710 split1795 snitch1801 cheep1831 squeal1846 to put away1858 spot1864 report1869 squawk1872 nose1875 finger1877 ruck1884 to turn over1890 to gag on1891 shop1895 pool1907 run1909 peep1911 pot1911 copper1923 finger1929 rat1932 to blow the whistle on1934 grass1936 rat1969 to put in1975 turn1977 the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > slander or calumny > slander or calumniate [verb (transitive)] to say or speak shame of, on, byc950 teleeOE sayOE to speak evil (Old English be) ofc1000 belie?c1225 betell?c1225 missayc1225 skandera1300 disclanderc1300 wrenchc1300 bewrayc1330 bite1330 gothele1340 slanderc1340 deprave1362 hinderc1375 backbite1382 blasphemec1386 afamec1390 fame1393 to blow up?a1400 defamea1400 noise1425 to say well (also evil, ill, etc.) of (also by)1445 malignc1450 to speak villainy of1470 infame1483 injury1484 painta1522 malicea1526 denigrate1526 disfamea1533 misreporta1535 sugill?1539 dishonest?c1550 calumniate1554 scandalize1566 ill1577 blaze1579 traduce1581 misspeak1582 blot1583 abuse1592 wronga1596 infamonize1598 vilify1598 injure?a1600 forspeak1601 libel1602 infamize1605 belibel1606 calumnize1606 besquirt1611 colly1615 scandala1616 bedirt1622 soil1641 disfigurea1643 sycophant1642 spatter1645 sugillate1647 bespattera1652 bedung1655 asperse1656 mischieve1656 opprobriatea1657 reflect1661 dehonestate1663 carbonify1792 defamate1810 mouth1810 foul-mouth1822 lynch1836 rot1890 calumny1895 ding1903 bad-talk1938 norate1938 bad-mouth1941 monster1967 ?a1400 Morte Arth. (1819) 47 A monge hem all be fore the dese He bloweth oute vppon the quene, To haue hys ryght. 1634 Malory's Arthur (1816) II. 438 Then Sir Gawaine made many men to blow upon Sir Launcelot, and all at once they called him ‘False recreant Knight!’ 1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. at Blaw To Blaw out on one, formally to denounce one as a rebel by three blasts of the king's horn at the market-cross of the head-borough of the shire; an old forensic phrase. 1844 Spirit of Times 20 Jan. 557/2 Go! Get off; I'll not blow on you. 1876 J. Weiss Wit, Humor, & Shakespeare ii. 51 Why..does she not blow upon the doctor? 1877 J. Greenwood Dick Temple II. i. 10 She ain't got nobody but me to keep a secret for her, and I've been and blowed on her. 1916 E. Wallace Clue of Twisted Candle (1918) xvii. 197 I'm not going to blow on it, if it's going to get me into trouble, but if you'll promise me that it won't, I'll tell you the whole story. 1960 ‘W. Haggard’ Closed Circuit viii. 94 There could be only one explanation: Menderez had blown on him. b. ΚΠ 1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ vi. xxxix. 60 I Thank you for the good opinion you..have of my fancy of Trees: It is a maiden one, and not blown upon by any one yet. 1678 J. Norris Coll. Misc. (1699) 325 I wave these, and fix upon another account less Blown upon. 1679 W. Penn Addr. Protestants App. 246 A Man of Wisdom, Sobriety and Ability..if a Dissenter, must be blown upon for a Phanatick. 1709 S. Centlivre Busie Body ii. ii. 26 If I can but keep my Daughter from being blown upon 'till Signeur Babinetto arrives. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 105. ¶5 He will..whisper an Intriegue that is not yet blown upon by common Fame. 1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 464. ⁋1 I am wonderfully pleased when I meet with any Passage in an old Greek or Latin Author, that is not blown upon. 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones IV. x. ii. 15 The Reputation of her House, which was never blown upon before, was utterly destroyed. View more context for this quotation 1845 R. Ford Hand-bk. Travellers in Spain I. i. 17 If once blown upon, no one would employ them. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. 48 The credit of the false witnesses had been blown upon. 1877 A. M. Sullivan New Ireland xxiii. 276 They had got word that the plot was ‘blown upon’ by some traitor. c. ΚΠ 1864 Duke of Manchester Court & Society I. 80 Puebla's character had been somewhat blown. < as lemmas |
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