单词 | to dress up |
释义 | > as lemmasto dress up to dress up I. To set up or in order. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > vertical position > make vertical [verb (transitive)] > make upright or erect rearOE rightOE to set upa1225 raisea1250 upreara1300 risea1400 to dress upc1400 stand?a1425 upsetc1440 dress1490 to stick up1528 arrect1530 erect1557 prick1566 upright1590 mounta1616 the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > bed related to sleep or rest > go to bed or retire to rest [verb (intransitive)] > get up or rise arisec950 riseOE risec1175 uprisea1400 to dress upc1400 rouse1577 to get up1583 up1635 unroost1751 to turn out1801 to show a leg1818 to roll out1884 to hit the deck1918 c1400 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Laud) (1952) l. 1939 Vp he dresseþ heued and swire, And gynneþ speke on þis manere. c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 2009 De-liuerly he dressed vp er þe day sprenged. c1440 (?a1400) Morte Arthure l. 2026 (MED) This ryche mane..Dresses vp dredfully the dragone of golde, With egles alouer. a1450 (c1410) H. Lovelich Hist. Holy Grail xv. l. 468 (MED) Thanne vp sche hire dressid As sche Mowht, And On hire knees sche dressid hire down To-forn hire bed. 1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xvii. 372 Thar men mycht se..Men assalȝeand richt hardely, Dressand vp ledderis douchtely. 1530 Myroure Oure Ladye (Fawkes) (1873) i. 28 Myne eres shall be dressed vp[L. erecte], to here his prayer. 1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie iii. iii. 74 To dresse vp the pauillion. 2. transitive. To prepare or set up; to draw up; to make ready or right. Now rare. ΚΠ c1400 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Laud) (1952) l. 2264 (MED) Tauryn..Bigan to dresse vp his hatt. c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) cxvii. 422 And dresse vp tubbes with water of the see, and halowe you it, and chrysten them therin. ?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xlviiiv Swepe thy house dresse vp thy disshborde. 1608 W. Bishop Reproofe Abbots Def. 125 A poore Scholler, gladde to sweepe and dresse vp chambers, and to play the drudge for a slender pittance. 1635 Maldon Doc. (Bundle 80 No. 2) vis. viiid. for dressing up the said moote-hall, counsell chamber, and other the Romethes there this yere. 1700 G. Booth tr. Diodorus Siculus Hist. Libr. i. iv. 25 Apartments, in which were all sorts of Delicate Meats ready drest up. 1772 J. Pringle Let. 25 Dec. in J. G. Buhle Literarischer Briefwechsel (1795) II. 344 When any composition is dressed up with care and anxiety, and especially in the Latin language, we generally find a good deal more difficulty in reading it, than if it had been hastily written to a friend. 1816 Q. Rev. Jan. 387 This ‘pretty botanical chart’..was dressed up with great care and study in his closet, according to a rule. 1950 E. Bradner Northwest Angling iii. 44 I happened to have the tail of a gray squirrel that was given me, and dressed up a fly with a yellow silk body, palmered gray hackle and the squirrel hair for wings. II. To clothe. 3. transitive. a. To clothe (a person or oneself) stylishly or elaborately, esp. more elaborately than usual; to clothe in a manner appropriate to a role or position aspired to. Also in figurative contexts. Also intransitive with reflexive sense.dressed up to the nines: see nine n. 4b. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > provide with clothing [verb (transitive)] > in specific way > dress up or dress elaborately disguisec1325 quaintisea1333 guisea1400 to dress up?a1513 deck?1521 garnisha1535 trim1594 gallant1614 sprug1622 dizena1625 to dress out1649 bedizen1661 rig1723 trim1756 bedress1821 gaudy1838 buck up1854 garb1868 clobber1887 mum1890 to do up1897 dude1899 toff1914 lair1941 a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 74 So monye ane kittye drest vp in goldin cheinȝe,..With apilreinȝe ay schawand hir semble chene. 1589 ‘Pasquill of England’ Returne of Pasquill sig. Biijv Martin..is the Mayd-marian, trimlie drest vppe in a cast Gowne, and a Kercher. 1612 North's Plutarch 150 Faire maide slaues, dressed vp like gentlewomen. 1650 Bp. J. Taylor Rule & Exercises Holy Living ii. 65 Look upon pleasures, not..as they come towards you to be enjoyed; for then they paint, and smile, and dresse themselves up in tinsel & glasse, gems and counterfeit imagery. 1685 A. Behn Love Lett. between Noble-man & Sister: 2nd Pt. 272 She made Antonett dress her up in her Cloaths. 1721 G. Berkeley Ess. Preventing Ruine Great Brit. 12 The direct way to ruine a Man is to dress him up in fine Cloaths. 1747 W. Stith Hist. Virginia iv. 208 There was a noted Indian..who was wont, out of Bravery and Parade, to dress himself up, in a strange and barbaric Fashion. 1788 Crit. Rev. Feb. 81 They dress up the object of their vows in the most glittering attire; adorn her with every merit and every virtue. 1837 E. Eden Let. 22 Nov. in Up the Country 41 They led us..to the old lady, who is blind and very ill; but they had dressed her up for us, and we had to kiss her, which was not very nice. 1866 Temple Bar Oct. 314 Here's a Yankee..dresses himself up in new clothes like a gentleman. 1914 C. Mackenzie Sinister St. II. iii. vi. 618 You'd be the first to laugh..if I dressed up..half-a-dozen of my friends in velvet jackets. 1968 Farm Supplier Apr. 21/1 They felt they had to dress up a bit to come in town, so they didn't make rush trips very often. 2003 D. M. Johnson Socrates & Alcibiades (2012) p. vii Socrates..was willing to dress himself up in uncharacteristically fancy garb in order to make an appearance on this night. b. In passive. all dressed up with nowhere to go and variants: specially or elaborately dressed for an occasion that fails to take place; (figurative) highly prepared for something that ultimately fails to happen; overly or unnecessarily prepared. ΚΠ 1911 Variety 26 Aug. 14/1 During the performance, Miss Allen employed for laughs, ‘You can't insult me, I have been insulted by experts,’ and ‘All dressed up with no place to go’. 1911 San Francisco Chron. Sunday Mag. 12 Nov. 21/1 ‘Here I am, all dressed up, and nowhere to go,’ murmured Florence Holbrook with an uneasy glance at her sealskins. 1941 Afro-Amer. 1 Mar. 23/4 Speaker for the occasion was the Rev. M. L. King, pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church, who said ‘Atlantans are all dressed up with no place to go’. 1968 Irish Times 27 Nov. 10/2 This image of the new graduate as being somebody ‘all dressed up with nowhere to go’ is undoubtedly one that many undergraduates have not considered. 1999 R. T. Davies Queer as Folk: Scripts Episode 5. 130 (stage direct.) Marie's kitchen, in an ordinary Barratt-home type house. Marie's all dressed up with nowhere to go. 2010 Australian (Nexis) 2 Feb. (Features section) 12 If the ETS [sc. emissions trading scheme] legislation is defeated again, which seems certain, we will have an environmental tax department all dressed up but with nowhere to go. 4. transitive. figurative. To present under a different guise; esp. to make (a thing) appear more attractive or interesting, by means of embellishment, exaggeration, falsification, etc. ΚΠ 1618 F. Beaumont in H. Fitzgeffrey Certain Elegies sig. A3 I shall ere long Dresse vp your vertues new, in a new song. 1665 R. Boyle Disc. iii. iv, in Occas. Refl. sig. D4v A but plausible Argument, dress'd up in fine Similitudes. 1725 I. Watts Logick iii. iii. §1 They dress up the opinion of their adversary as they please. 1768 E. Smith Let. 13 Apr. in L. H. Butterfield et al. Adams Family Corr. (1963) I. 64 He has an excellent faculty of dressing up a story in a very humoursome manner. 1841 G. Sinclair Pract. Remarks Sc. Church Question 4 A doctrine which it is easy to dress up in specious and seducing terms. 1870 tr. Irenæus I. in Ante-Nicene Christian Libr. V. ii. 162 This, too, they have dressed up anew, and referred to Bythus and their Æons. 1905 A. Lang Red Romance Bk. Pref. p. vii The stories were really fairy tales, dressed up and spun out. 1977 J. D. Collins in B. G. Guerney Relationship Enhancement viii. 214 You know I'm not very tactful, and I don't have a way of dressing things up. 2015 T. Carman in S. Gardner & M. Grist Transcendental Turn xii. 264 Of what value is truth.., once we see through all the old myths that dressed it up as something supernatural, transcendent, magical, and redemptive. 5. intransitive. Of a person, esp. a child: to put on a costume or fancy dress; to put on various (adult) clothes as a game. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > provide with clothing [verb (intransitive)] > in specific way > dress up to toss out1759 to tog it1819 prig1845 to rag out1849 buck up1854 to dress up1869 poon1943 priss1971 1869 L. M. Alcott Old-fashioned Girl v, in Merry's Museum Sept. 490 I ain't going to dress up for nothing. I look so lovely, some one must admire me. 1888 Mrs. H. Ward Robert Elsmere I. i. iv. 85 He could see her dressing up with him on wet days, reciting King Henry to his Prince Hal. 1903 Little Folks Feb. 115/1 We began to dress up... Humphrey had on my white flannel pyjamas with a red sash... Violet had on the lace window-curtain. 1959 D. Campbell Evening under Lamplight 21 Let's play grown-ups. Let's dress up in their clothes. 2015 Vancouver Sun (Nexis) 31 Oct. a23 My mom let me dress up as Raphael. < as lemmas |
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