| 单词 | to go berserk |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto go berserk A wild Norse warrior of great strength and ferocious courage, who fought on the battle-field with a frenzied fury known as the ‘berserker rage’; often a lawless bravo or freebooter. Also figurative and attributive. Now usually as adj., frenzied, furiously or madly violent; esp. in to go berserk. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > [noun] > berserker berserk1814 baresark1841 the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [adjective] > frenzied or raging aweddeOE woodc1000 woodlyc1000 wildc1300 franticc1390 ramage1440 welling woodc1440 staringc1449 rammistc1455 rabious1460 horn-wood?a1500 rammisha1500 enragea1522 frenzic1547 wood-like1578 horn-mad1579 woodful1582 frenzicala1586 ragefula1586 rabid1594 ravening1599 ravenous1607 Pythic1640 exorbitant1668 frenziful1726 haggard-wild1786 frenzied1796 maenadic1830 berserk1867 up the wall1951 ballistic1981 the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [verb (intransitive)] > suffer from frenzy or raging awedeeOE to tear (out) the hairc1330 to run amok1672 amoka1811 to go berserk1917 to do one's (occasionally the) nut1919 to go bush1933 1814 W. Scott in H. Weber Illustr. North. Antiq. 60 The support of the two Berserkir would be of the greatest advantage to him. 1831 W. Scott Pirate (new ed.) I. ii. 19 (note) The Berserkars, so called from fighting without armour. 1837 R. W. Emerson Misc. 85 Out of terrible Druids and Berserkers, come at last Alfred and Shakspeare. 1839 T. Carlyle Chartism iv. 30 Let no man awaken it, this same Berserkir-rage! 1851 C. Kingsley Yeast i. 16 Yelling, like Berserk fiends, among the frowning tombstones. 1861 C. H. Pearson Early & Middle Ages Eng. 430 Mere brotherhood in arms..did not distinguish the civilized man from the berserkar. 1867 H. Kingsley Silcote of Silcotes I. xii. 136 With her kindly, uncontrollable vivacity, in the brisk winter air she became more ‘berserk’ as she went on. 1879 E. Gosse Stud. Lit. N. Europe 166 He was a dangerous old literary bersark to the last. 1887 E. C. Dawson Life Bp. Hannington v. 57 He..was filled with a Berserk rage and thirst for retribution. 1917 R. Kipling Diversity of Creatures 264 You went Berserk. I've read all about it in Hypatia..you'll probably be liable to fits of it all your life. 1940 Chicago Tribune 20 Nov. 10/3 America goes berserk. 1940 Chicago Tribune 20 Nov. 10/3 The recent addition of the word ‘berserk’, as a synonym for crackpot behaviour, to the slang of the young and untutored... American stenographers..are telling one another not to be ‘berserk’. 1944 ‘P. Quentin’ Puzzle for Puppets xvii. 121 Edwina [sc. an elephant], had gone berserk. 1961 G. Smith Business of Loving iii. 124 Hammond converted and Shallerton came back as if berserk. 1961 G. Smith Business of Loving iii. 132 I think Ken Heppel will go berserk. 1962 P. Brickhill Deadline xviii. 213 I went berserk, kicking his head again and again. 1962 P. Brickhill Deadline xviii. 214 In that berserk mood I think I could have bent an iron bar. 1964 J. Symons End of Solomon Grundy i. i. 27 If you have chaps like old Sol going berserk, it's enough to break up any party. < as lemmas |
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