| 单词 | to mock and mow |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto mock and mow c. to mock and mow: to jeer and grimace; to make faces. Cf. to mop and mow at mop v.2 ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > jeering, taunting, or scoffing > [verb (intransitive)] gab?c1225 scoffa1380 mockc1475 to mock and mow1509 jest1526 jeer1553 taunt1560 gibe1567 scripa1572 to come over ——1600 flirt1603 tit1622 to sling off (at)1911 signify1932 barrack- 1509 A. Barclay Brant's Shyp of Folys (Pynson) f. liii They mocke and mowe at anothers small offence. 1533 T. More Answere Poysened Bk. iv. xxii. f. cclviiiv Mayster Maskar..mocketh and moweth in that glasse, and maketh as many straunge faces and as many pretye pottes therein, as yt were an olde ryeueled ape. 1546 J. Bale Actes Eng. Votaryes: 1st Pt. f. 4 They mocke and mowe at them lyke Jack a napes. 1586 G. Talbot in Cal. State Papers, Domest. 1581–90 (1865) 452 It appeareth..that she doth already hate him and hath called him knave, fool, and beast to his face, and hath mocked and mowed at him. 1626 J. Davies Psalm xxxv. (1869) I. 411 In my woe they made great mirth and glee, The very abjects mockt and mowde at mee. a1822 P. B. Shelley Peter Bell III vi, in Poet. Wks. (?1840) 244/1 With Flibbertigibbet, imp of pride, Mocking and mowing by his side. 1947 M. Lowry Under Volcano ix. 281 And now Yvonne Griffaton's father, who had been implicated in the Dreyfus case, came to mock and mow at her. < as lemmas |
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