| 单词 | to cut didoes |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto cut (up) didoes A prank, a caper; a disturbance, ‘row’, ‘shindy’; esp. in to cut (up) didoes. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > absurdity, incongruity > [noun] > antic toy?1518 antics1570 murlimewes1583 monkey trick1653 dido1807 monkey work1830 monkeyshinec1832 monkey business1835 rannygazoo1896 1807 J. R. Shaw Life ix. 140 A jolly Irishman, who cut as many didos as I could for the life of me. 1835 D. P. Thompson Adventures Timothy Peacock 170 Must all the world know all the didos we cut up in the lodge-room? 1843–4 T. C. Haliburton Attaché Them Italian singers recitin' their jabber..and cuttin' didoes at a private concert. 1851 N.Y. Tribune 10 Apr. in J. S. Farmer Americanisms (1889) We should have had just the same didoes cut up by the chivalry. 1869 H. B. Stowe Oldtown Folks 106 They will be a consultin' together, and cuttin' up didos. 1880 L. Parr Adam & Eve I. vi 151 I thought..you'd be cuttin' up a Dido with everything. 1891 ‘Q’ Noughts & Crosses 76 There was a pretty dido goin' on atween the dree. 1893 ‘Q’ Delectable Duchy 271 What a dido he do kick up, to be sure. 1919 H. Jenkins John Dene of Toronto (1920) v. 84 ‘Well, you can't,’ snapped John Dene, ‘receiver's off. Your boys have been playing dido all morning on my phone.’ < as lemmas |
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