| 单词 | to call names |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto call (a person) names d. to call (a person) names: to address (a person) with abusive or insulting names; to insult (a person) verbally. Also to call names: to make verbal insults; to engage in name-calling. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > invective or abuse > abuse [verb (transitive)] > call names miscallc1449 to call (a person) foulc1450 misname1528 to call (a person) names1638 becall1683 call1825 1638 J. Ford Fancies iii. 43 He pinched me, called me names, most filthy names. 1652 G. Fidge Great Eater Grayes-Inne 11 The woman having found out the Deceit, was cursing him deeply, and calling him all the names that could be. 1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World v. 117 They..content themselves with standing aloof, threatning and calling names. 1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 274. ⁋1 Calling Names does no Good. 1766 B. Martin App. Descr. & Use Globes i. 30 I should have taken in very good Part all his Plagiarism.., if he had not been so ungenerous as to call me names for it. 1797 N.-Y. Mag. Mar. 250/2 Unable to resist, he called them names in broad Scotch, and ordered them to desist, and be gone. 1854 H. Miller Schools & Schoolmasters xxii. 461 He replied to my jokes by calling names. 1884 Times (Weekly ed.) 5 Sept. 3/1 They were not in the habit of calling one another names. 1917 A. C. H. Rice Calvary Alley xv. 182 Now that Nance was too old to stick out her tongue and call names, she found her power of repartee seriously interfered with. 1962 Jet 8 Mar. 28 I just wanted to shoot him. I'm tired of him pushing me around and calling me names. 2008 E. J. Sun in A. Pung Growing up Asian in Austral. 336 Like most emotionally retarded eight-year-old boys, the only way I could communicate with her was by calling her names. to call names d. to call (a person) names: to address (a person) with abusive or insulting names; to insult (a person) verbally. Also to call names: to make verbal insults; to engage in name-calling. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > invective or abuse > abuse [verb (transitive)] > call names miscallc1449 to call (a person) foulc1450 misname1528 to call (a person) names1638 becall1683 call1825 1638 J. Ford Fancies iii. 43 He pinched me, called me names, most filthy names. 1652 G. Fidge Great Eater Grayes-Inne 11 The woman having found out the Deceit, was cursing him deeply, and calling him all the names that could be. 1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World v. 117 They..content themselves with standing aloof, threatning and calling names. 1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 274. ⁋1 Calling Names does no Good. 1766 B. Martin App. Descr. & Use Globes i. 30 I should have taken in very good Part all his Plagiarism.., if he had not been so ungenerous as to call me names for it. 1797 N.-Y. Mag. Mar. 250/2 Unable to resist, he called them names in broad Scotch, and ordered them to desist, and be gone. 1854 H. Miller Schools & Schoolmasters xxii. 461 He replied to my jokes by calling names. 1884 Times (Weekly ed.) 5 Sept. 3/1 They were not in the habit of calling one another names. 1917 A. C. H. Rice Calvary Alley xv. 182 Now that Nance was too old to stick out her tongue and call names, she found her power of repartee seriously interfered with. 1962 Jet 8 Mar. 28 I just wanted to shoot him. I'm tired of him pushing me around and calling me names. 2008 E. J. Sun in A. Pung Growing up Asian in Austral. 336 Like most emotionally retarded eight-year-old boys, the only way I could communicate with her was by calling her names. < as lemmas |
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