| 单词 | to call the crack |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto call the crack a. to call the crack: to talk together, to converse. Cf. crack n. 5a. Now rare. ΚΠ 1786 R. Burns Poems 196 On Fasteneen we had a rockin, To ca' the crack and weave our stockin. 1799 A. McNight Poems 126 Some kiss and clap the lass they like, With words most kind they to them speak, An' tak a course a' through the street, To ca' the crack some mair complete. 1858 M. Porteous Real Souter Johnny (ed. 2) 13 While Souter Johnnie ca'd the crack. 1883 W. Jolly Life J. Duncan xviii. 189 There his advent caused his friends to flock to the weaving shop and the shoemaker's, ‘to hear the news and ca' the crack’. 1904 S. R. Crockett Raiderland 131 A kirk is never quite commodious and cheery without monuments to read, and ‘thruchs’ upon which to sit and ‘ca' the crack’. 1962 Scots Mag. Oct. 37/1 The minister was introduced, and while Tam ‘ca'd the crack’ the guidwife turned the kettle on the ‘swee’. < as lemmas |
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