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单词 to fork the fingers
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to fork the fingers
3. transitive. To make or put into the form of a fork; to make fork-shaped. †to fork the fingers: to extend them towards a person as a mark of contempt.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > think or behave contemptuously [verb (intransitive)] > express contempt by gesture
scrape1561
to fork the fingers1640
to cock one's nose (up)1692
to look down one's nose (at)1721
to do a Harvey Smith1973
the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > two > division into two > divide in two [verb (transitive)] > bifurcate
bifurcate1615
fork1640
1640 Wits Recreations sig. C2 His wife..Behind him forks her fingers.
1668 N. Culpeper & A. Cole tr. T. Bartholin Anat. (new ed.) i. viii. 315 The Ramus Iliacus is forked out on each side.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VII. 348 The tail..is forked into two horns.
1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art I. 376 A lever..which is forked at the lower part to receive the pendulum.
1816 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Canto III xcv. 52 The mightiest of the storms..through these parted hills hath fork'd His lightnings.
1817 S. T. Coleridge Biogr. Lit. 289 Bertram..stands..with his lower limbs forked.
figurative.1683 J. Dryden & N. Lee Duke of Guise iv. iii. 46 Angel Traytors..Fork'd into Ills, and split into Deceits.
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