| 单词 | to black up |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto black up to black up 1. transitive. colloquial. To bruise (part of the body, esp. the area around the eye) with a punch or blow. Cf. black eye n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > injure [verb (transitive)] > injure by striking > bruise bruiseOE forbruisec1386 to-bruisea1400–50 contuse?1541 surbate1590 sugillate1623 bruslea1625 maula1627 contund1654 sugill1663 blacken1808 to black up1821 mudge1848 contusion1871 1821 A. N. Royall Let. 10 July in Lett. Alabama (1969) xlv. 228 Not content with blacking up his eyes, they overturned his tin-cart, and scattered his tins to the four winds. 1830 R. Sharp Diary 9 Jan. (1997) 242 Some of the Heroes of So. Cave true to their breeding, abused him a good deal. But he blacked up Cottam's face in a superior manner. 1893 W. C. Russell Romance of Transport 12 Another waterman..whipped off his coat like lightning, and in five minutes blacked up both his opponent's eyes. 1922 P. K. Fitzhugh Pee-Wee Harris Adrift v. 26 The first time I see yer on Main Street I'll black up both yer eyes fer yer, d'yer see? 1959 V. S. Naipaul Miguel St. x. 111 Black up their eye and bruise up their knee And then they love you eternally. 2007 L. Goodison From Harvey Island 219 Every time he black-up my eye, he would swear up and down how he would never hit me again. 2. Originally U.S. a. transitive. To apply black colour to (the body, esp. the face), typically in order to play the role of a black person. Cf. blackface n. 1b. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > the staging of a theatrical production > stage [verb (transitive)] > make up to make up1778 to whiten up1842 to blacken up1861 to black up1877 to white up1906 1877 W. R. Alger Life E. Forrest I. 109 He blacked himself up and rigged his costume quite to his content. 1925 J. H. Taber Story of 168th Infantry xiii. 135 We lined up about dusk, blacked up our faces, and then the lieutenant tells all about what kind of a patrol it is. 1949 J. Thurber Let. 6 Apr. (2002) 458 It goes on to tell how this lady blacked me up and dressed me in women's clothes, and the ending is at once comical and sad. 1988 M. Warner Lost Father xxi. 226 Her plump feet were bare and blacked up with shoe polish. 2008 R. R. Kingsbury Eighteen-year-old Replacem. 42 On the night of the dry run the platoon blacked up our faces to blend well with the jet-black night. b. intransitive. To apply black colour to one's body (esp. the face), typically in order to play the role of a black person. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > the staging of a theatrical production > stage [verb (intransitive)] > make up black1579 blacken1699 to make up1839 to whiten up1878 to blacken up1884 to black up1890 to white up1890 1890 B. Hall Turnover Club 197 They barely had time to get back to the theater to black up for the evening performance. 1934 P. G. Wodehouse Thank you, Jeeves xv. 212 Old Glossop isn't blacking up? 1987 E. Walker Voyage i. xvii. 181 Jake pulled on dark trousers and a dark poloneck jumper... ‘We ought to black up.’ 1999 Guardian 27 Aug. i. 26/4 It was such an accepted convention that when the great ‘coloured’ vaudevillian Bert Williams appeared in the world-famous Ziegfeld Follies, even he blacked up—because the producer thought Williams's skin was too light. < as lemmas |
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