单词 | to mess or mell |
释义 | > as lemmasto mess or (also and) mell a. intransitive. To mix or associate with. Also (Scottish): to mess or (also and) mell. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > association, fellowship, or companionship > associate together or with [verb (intransitive)] mingc1275 company1387 joinc1390 meddlec1390 herd?a1400 fellowshipc1430 enfellowship1470 to step in1474 accompany?1490 yoke?a1513 to keep with ——c1515 conjoin1532 wag1550 frequent1577 encroach1579 consort1588 sort1595 commerce1596 troop1597 converse1598 to keep (also enter, come into, etc.) commons1598 to enter common1604 atone1611 to walk (also travel) in the way with1611 minglea1616 consociate1638 associate1644 corrive1647 co-unite1650 walk1650 cohere1651 engage1657 mix1667 accustom1670 to make one1711 coalite1735 commerciate1740 to have nothing to say to (also with)1780 gang?1791 companion1792 mess1795 matea1832 comrade1865 to go around1904 to throw in with1906 to get down1975 1795 R. Cumberland Wheel of Fortune ii. 23 I had sooner mess with the savages in Africa than be shut into a room with a company of wits. 1821 J. Galt Ann. Parish xxiv. 221 She..would not let me..mess or mell we the lathron lasses of the clachan. 1822 J. Galt Steam-boat iv. 88 This is an observe that I have made..since I began..to mess and mell more with the generality of mankind. 1849 H. D. Thoreau Week Concord & Merrimack Rivers 150 They appeared to be green hands..who had taken this means to get to the seaboard, and see the world..and were ready to mess with mankind. 1880 in N. E. Eliason Tarheel Talk (1956) 91 A politician says ‘That fellow is “messing” (associating) with the Radicals.’ 1887 J. Service Life Dr. Duguid (ed. 3) 281 He would neither mess nor mell wi' ony o' the new reformers. 1913 Dial. Notes 4 5 Mess with, to associate with. ‘We don't mess with those people.’ 1938 M. K. Rawlings Yearling xxiii. 290 If she's nothin' but one o' them leetle ol' chipperdales, why do he mess up with her? 1955 S. Whitmore Solo 27 And what little lady is going to mess with you? 1999 Herald (Glasgow) (Electronic ed.) 15 Apr. 38 My expensively educated blood runs cold at the thought of having to mess and mell every night with the kind of customers I imagine the bar's name is designed to attract. < as lemmas |
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