| 单词 | to gun for |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto gun for 2. intransitive. To shoot with a gun; hence, to make war. to gun for: to shoot for, to go in search of with a gun; also, to go after or in search of; to seek to attack, harm, or destroy (someone); to go gunning, in which the participial form represents historically a-gunning (see gunning n. and -ing suffix2). Chiefly U.S. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > shooting > shoot [verb (intransitive)] shoota1300 to go gunning1622 to shoot over1868 society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > discharge firearms [verb (intransitive)] to let fly1611 gun1622 fire1635 pop1650 pluff1826 squib1831 crack1835 poop1915 loose1928 to turn on (or give) the heat1928 the world > food and drink > hunting > shooting > shoot game [verb (transitive)] shootc893 to gun for1888 the world > movement > progressive motion > order of movement > following behind > follow [verb (transitive)] > pursue > with hostility or violence seekc825 to seek afterc1175 chasec1330 huntc1385 persecute1477 to gun for1893 bloodhound1935 1622 R. Hawkins Observ. Voiage South Sea x. 19 Which is a bad custome received and vsed of many ignorant persons, presently to gun at all whatsoever they discover, before they speake with them. 1622 M. Drayton 2nd Pt. Poly-olbion xxiii. 73 Forc'd by some yelping Cute to giue the Greyhounds view, Which are at length let slip, when gunning out they goe. 1767 in New-Eng. Historical & Geneal. Reg. (1860) XIV. 47 All Persons coming to gun on said Island after Game. 1779 D. Gookin in New-Eng. Historical & Geneal. Reg. (1862) XVI. 29 Our men went out this day gunning, saw deer and wild Turkey, killed none. 1839 F. Marryat Diary in Amer. II. 102 I was hardly twelve years old, and had never been allowed to go out gunning. 1865 U. S. Grant in Cent. Mag. (1889) Nov. 146/2 The whole captures since the army started out gunning, will amount to not less than twelve thousand men and probably fifty pieces of artillery. 1888 Cent. Mag. Mar. 780/1 The guards..used..to gun for prisoners' heads..after the fashion of boys after squirrels. 1893 W. K. Post Harvard Stories 188 That bull Mick Shreedy is gunning for me just at present. 1903 N.Y. Times 29 Sept. 1 Others talked of mysterious influences that had been ‘gunning’ for financiers of prominence. 1922 Daily Mail 5 Dec. 9 Observing that the Company's statement is not a denial of the assertion that it is ‘gunning’ for the Mesopotamian oilfields claimed by the heirs of Abdul Hamid. 1930 ‘E. Queen’ French Powder Myst. xix. 171 Mr. Trask has been gunning for Bernice [with a view to marriage] for over a year. 1936 P. G. Wodehouse Laughing Gas xviii. 198 Nice little bit of luck, finding her like that... Matter of fact, I wasn't gunning for her at all, really. I came to get that notebook. 1950 G. Greene Third Man iii. 31 I'm gunning..for Colonel Callaghan. 1955 Times 16 June 12/2 You found when you came back from Oslo that for other reasons the Communist Party was ‘gunning’ for Mr. Frankel? 1958 Observer 10 Aug. 3/2 Last week American commentators were gunning for Mr. Dulles (‘too busy, too tired, too discouraged, too stale,’ said Walter Lippmann..). 1960 C. Day Lewis Buried Day ix. 204 I felt that ‘They’ were gunning for me again. < as lemmas |
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