| 单词 | to break a jest |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto break a jest 23. transitive. to break a jest: to utter, crack a joke. So to break a sigh, to break a smile, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > cause laughter [verb (intransitive)] > jest or joke gameOE jest1553 mow1559 cog1588 to break a jest1589 droll1654 joke1670 fool1673 crack a jest1721 crack a joke1753 pleasant1848 humorize1851 rot1896 kibitz1923 gag1942 the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > sighing > sigh [verb (intransitive)] sichec893 sikec1175 sigh1377 to sigh unsound?a1400 sightc1450 sithec1450 throb1557 to break a sigh1765 heave1820 sock1863 the world > life > the body > respiratory organs > breathing > audible breathing > [verb (intransitive)] > sigh sichec893 sikec1175 sughc1175 sigh1377 sightc1450 sithec1450 suspirec1450 soughc1475 supire?1590 to break a sigh1765 sock1863 the mind > emotion > pleasure > smiling > smile [verb (intransitive)] smirkc888 smilea1300 subride1623 to break a smile1796 beam1893 cheese1930 1589 J. Lyly Pappe with Hatchet B Your Knaueship brake your fast on the Bishops, by breaking your iests on them. 1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing ii. i. 136 Heele but break a comparison or two on me. View more context for this quotation 1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. III. v. 119 On the Scaffold (a place not to break jests, but to break off all jesting) he could not hold. 1709 J. Swift Project Advancem. Relig. 31 He is..in continual Apprehension, that some pert Man of Pleasure should break an unmannerly Jest. 1765 O. Goldsmith Double Transform. in Ess. 231 Jack..often broke A sigh in suffocating smoke. 1796 R. Southey Joan of Arc x. 151 Welcoming his gallant son, He brake a sullen smile. 1833 Fraser's Mag. 8 54 The landlord and waiter..were not suffered to do any thing, save to break their jokes on the members. to break a jest 4. A mocking or jeering speech; a taunt, a jeer. Also, in milder sense, A piece of raillery or banter. to break a jest (also in sense 5): see break v. 23. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > banter or good-humoured ridicule > [noun] > piece or instance of jest1548 rallery1645 raillery1653 rally1659 banter1679 quiz1795 josh1878 the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > jeering, taunting, or scoffing > [noun] > instance of hoker-wordOE gabc1225 scornc1275 jape1377 bourda1387 gaudc1440 knack1513 scoffing1530 gleekc1540 jest1548 to have a fling at?1550 snack?1554 boba1566 taunta1566 gird1566 flim-flam-flirt1573 gibe1573 scoff1573 flouting-stock1593 mycterism1593 flirt1613 fleera1616 scomma1620 jeer1631 snouchc1780 brocard1837 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry V f. lxxviiv [He] fled to Burges in Berrie,..and therfore in a Iest he was comonly called the kyng of Burges and of Berries. 1551 R. Robinson tr. T. More Vtopia sig. Aiii An other is so narrow in ye sholders, that he can beare no iestes nor tawntes. 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost iv. iii. 172 Too bitter is thy iest. Are we betrayed thus to thy ouer-view? View more context for this quotation 1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing v. i. 183 You breake iests as braggards do their blades, which God be thanked hurt not. View more context for this quotation 1670 T. S. & A. Roberts Adventures Eng. Merchant 27 He cast a Jest upon every one of us, which gave the Company a great deal of Mirth. 1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Iliad in Iliad & Odyssey I. ii. 258 Might he but set the rabble in a roar, He cared not with what jest. 1871 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest IV. xviii. 233 That their return to Normandy was owing to the importunities of their wives would be an obvious jest at the time. < as lemmas |
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