单词 | to make a sport of |
释义 | > as lemmasto make a sport of b. to make a sport of: to make a joke or mockery of. Now archaic. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > banter or good-humoured ridicule > banter [verb (transitive)] > make fun of to have (also i-do) (something) to gameeOE to make (a) game of (also at, on)?c1250 overmirtha1400 sporta1533 to make a sport of1535 to make (up) a lip1546 to give one a (or the) gleek1567 to make a May game of1569 to play with a person's nose1579 to make merry over (also with)1621 game1699 to make fun of1732 hit1843 the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > cause laughter [verb (transitive)] > utter a jest or joke > make jest of or joke about to make a sport of1535 humorize1749 mess1946 to fuck with ——1968 to screw with ——1986 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Prov. x. C A foole doth wickedly & maketh but a sporte of it. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Esdras i. 51 Loke what God spake vnto them by his prophetes, they made but a sporte of it. 1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing ii. iii. 151 He would make but a sport of it, and torment the poore Lady worse. View more context for this quotation 1678 A. Behn Sir Patient Fancy iv. ii. 58 You have Sir, you wou'd say, made a sport and May-game of the ingagement of your word. 1704 C. Darby Bk. Psalms lix. 89 But thou, O Lord shalt laugh at them, And make of them a sport. 1791 H. B. Dudley Woodman iii. 67 I have met with no one except a savage train of hunters, and they made but a sport of my distress! 1830 Times 14 Aug. 2/1 I have never made a sport of my word, and with me the obligation of an oath has always been sacred. 1865 B. Gray Matrimonial Infelicities 200 He did not come to Allen-Dale to be made a sport of. 1915 ‘W. Bamfylde’ Midsummer Magic xvii. 195 Fate was making a sport of him. 1992 H. H. Rudnick in A.-T. Tymieniecka Elemental Dialectic of Light & Darkness v. 309 Deconstruction is making a sport of received values that function as markers of orientation at least for those students who are trying to understand the basic tenets of the human condition. < as lemmas |
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