| 单词 | to be mops and brooms |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto be (also feel) mops and brooms c. slang and English regional. to be (also feel) mops and brooms: to be half-drunk; to feel confused or disorientated. Now rare.The expression is said to allude to the drinking that took place at hiring fairs: see note at mop n.5 ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [adjective] > drunk > partially drunk merrya1382 semi-bousyc1460 pipe merry1542 totty1570 tipsy1577 martin-drunk1592 pleasant1596 mellow1611 tip-merry1612 flustered1615 lusticka1616 well to live1619 jolly1652 happy1662 hazy1673 top-heavy1687 hearty1695 half-seas-over1699 oiled1701 mellowish1703 half channelled over1709 drunkish1710 half-and-half1718 touched1722 uppisha1726 tosie1727 bosky1730 funny1751 fairish1756 cherry-merry1769 in suds1770 muddy1776 glorious1790 groggified1796 well-corned1800 fresh1804 to be mops and brooms1814 foggy1816 how-come-ye-so1816 screwy1820 off the nail1821 on (also, esp. in early use, upon) the go1821 swipey1821 muggy1822 rosy1823 snuffy1823 spreeish1825 elevated1827 up a stump1829 half-cockedc1830 tightish1830 tipsified1830 half shaved1834 screwed1837 half-shot1838 squizzed1845 drinky1846 a sheet in the wind1862 tight1868 toppy1885 tiddly1905 oiled-up1918 bonkers1943 sloshed1946 tiddled1956 hickey- 1814 Sporting Mag. 44 188 ‘Now Tom, you're drunk!’ ‘No Dame not I, I'm only mops and brooms!’ 1871 F. C. Burnand More Happy Thoughts (ed. 2) xx. 148 There's nothing makes you feel so mops-and-brooms as doing that. 1886 H. Baumann Londinismen 111/2 I feel all mops and brooms, ich bin voller Schmerzen und Sorgen. 1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles II. xxxiv. 187 There is not much doing now, being New Year's Eve, and folks mops and brooms from what's inside 'em. a1895 S. Hewett MS Coll. Devonshire Words in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1903) IV. 158/2 Düee be quiet, my head's mazed—I be all mops and brooms to-day. < as lemmas |
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