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单词 to make work
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to make work
(b) to make work.
(i) Also to make a work. To create havoc or confusion; (hence) to make a fuss or to-do, to cause disturbance or trouble. Cf. sense 24. Now rare (Scottish and English regional in later use).In quot. 1574: †to trouble oneself to do something (obsolete).
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the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > commotion, disturbance, or disorder > be in commotion or disorder [verb (intransitive)] > cause commotion or disorder
to make work?1473
perturb1543
hurly-burly1598
to throw (also fling) the house out of (also at) the window (also windows)1602
tumultuate1611
to beat up the quarters of1670
hurricane1682
larum1729
to kick up, make, raise a stour1787
stour1811
to strike a bustle1823
to cut shindies1829
to kick up a shindy1829
hurricanize1833
rumpus1839
to raise (Old) Ned1840
to raise hell1845
fustle1891
to rock the boat1903
the world > action or operation > manner of action > effort or exertion > exert oneself or make an effort [verb (intransitive)]
tillc897
stightlea1375
stretcha1375
wrestlea1382
to put it forthc1390
to put one's hand(s) to (also unto)a1398
paina1400
takea1400
to do one's busy pain (also care, cure, diligence)?a1430
to make great force?c1450
makec1485
to stir one's stumpsa1500
to bestir one's stumps1549
to make work1574
put1596
bestira1616
operate1650
to lay out1659
to be at pains1709
exerta1749
tew1787
maul1821
to take (the) trouble1830
to pull outc1835
bother1840
trouble1880
to buck up1890
hump1897
to go somea1911
?1473 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Recuyell Hist. Troye (1894) II. lf. 181 He made suche werke [Fr. il fist tant] that the libyens had the worse.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 616/2 He maketh suche a worke whan he cometh that all the house is wery of hym.
1574 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xlii. 234 Thay maid na werk To seek ony.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) i. iv. 20 There is Auffidious. List what worke he makes Among'st your clouen Army. View more context for this quotation
1678 Earl of Arran in O. Airy Lauderdale Papers (1885) III. 102 It is a foolish thing for scots men to complain or make worke heir, or to endeavour a Rebellion in scotland.
1748 S. Richardson Clarissa V. xxvii. 223 O thou savage-hearted monster! What work hast thou made in one guilty hour, for a whole age of repentance!
1816 W. Scott Antiquary I. ix. 191 Ou dear! Monkbarns, what's the use of making a wark?
1883 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 425/1 Passing in and out and making no end of a work.
1948 M. Carbery & E. Grey Herts. Heritage 156 Sech a woork as was made an' all o-er noothin'.
(ii) To cause (additional) labour to be required; (with negative implication) to necessitate (inconvenient or troublesome) labour or effort.Recorded earliest in to make work for at Phrases 2d(c).
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?1543 T. Phaer tr. N. de Houssemaine Treat. Pestilence i. vii. f. xix, in tr. J. Goeurot Regiment of Lyfe They [sc. mercury precipitants] leaue a certeine euel qualitie or impression of the bodyes of al that do receyue them, and so they make worcke [Fr. est..besoigne taillee] for good phisitions, to the great hurt of them yt haue beleued them.
1606 A. Wotton Def. M. Perkins Bk. 406 You need not make worke: you haue your hands full.
1668 R. Steele Husbandmans Calling vi. 176 Except infants that make work, he will have all the rest do some work or other.
1754 A. Berthelson Eng. & Danish Dict. at Work Instead of doing work, he makes work.
1814 Eclectic Rev. Feb. 145 Making work, for the sole pleasure of paying for it.
1885 Outing Aug. 552/1 A strong, new vessel of eighty tons or more..ought not, if properly modeled, to make such a piece of work as this while laying at anchor.
1913 Amer. Poultry Advocate Feb. 208/1 The air has been so filled with moisture for the straw to absorb that it has made no end of work.
1969 I. Murdoch Bruno's Dream i. 2 He would have liked a coal fire now, only it made so much work.
2000 A. Granger Shades of Murder (2001) 14 The other house was a rambling place and made a lot of work.
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