单词 | to duck under |
释义 | > as lemmasto duck under a. To bend or stoop quickly so as to lower the body or head; to bob; to make a jerking bow; hence, figurative to cringe, yield; so, to duck under. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > move downwards [verb (intransitive)] > bend down > momentarily jouk1513 duck1530 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 526/1 I dowke, I stowpe lowe as a frere doth. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Ecclus. xix. 24 A wicked man can behaue himself humbly, and can douke with his heade. 1539 Surrender of Monasteries in T. Rymer Fœdera (1712) XIV. 611 Dokkyng, Nodding and Beckynge. 1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 57 Douking on all foure vnto him. ?1608 S. Lennard tr. P. Charron Of Wisdome i. xx. 78 To ducke and stoop to all sorts of people. 1713 A. Pope in Guardian 26 June 1/2 He never once Duck'd at the whizz of a Cannon Ball. 1869 R. Browning Ring & Bk. III. viii. 156 Law ducks to Gospel here. 1872 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch II. iii. xxiii. 7 Eat cold mutton, have to..‘duck under’ in any sort of a way. 1887 W. Besant World Went v. 42 [I] was comforted to see the men at the guns, none of them killed, and none of them ducking. < as lemmas |
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