单词 | to dare not quetch |
释义 | > as lemmasto dare not (so much as) quetch ΚΠ c1400 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Laud) (1952) 4738 (MED) He..makeþ pes maugre to eche; Dar noman aȝein hym queche. c1460 Tree & 12 Frutes (McClean) (1960) 150 (MED) Yif þey assayle vs, þey wete wel þat þei shulle be lightli ouercome, so þat þey durre not onys qwessh [v.rr. quycche, quyche] vpon vs. 1496 (c1410) Dives & Pauper (de Worde) ix. viii. 358/1 Be he so solempne & so myghty, that no man dare quycche ayenst hym. 1528 in F. J. Furnivall Ballads from MSS I. 359 Thow knowyste how..mortimer, in þis lande dyd Rule & Rayne, For whom no man durste quyche. 1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid Metamorphosis (new ed.) v. f. 66v The sillie Lambe that dares not stirre nor quetch when He heares the howling of the Wolfe. 1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. 975/1 They durst not queech in his presence, but were like a sort of timorous cattell. 1638 D. Featley Stricturæ in Lyndomastygem i.110 in H. Lynde Case for Spectacles A most learned worke, against which never a Papist yet durst quatch. 1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures xix. 67 Which put them in such a fear as they durst not so much as quetch. 1699 W. Baron Just Def. Royal Martyr iii. 56 If any dar'd..so much as quetch against her Prerogative,..she never spar'd to express the height of her Resentment. < as lemmas |
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