单词 | to scull around |
释义 | > as lemmasto scull around (or about) b. to scull around (or about), to move about aimlessly; also figurative. colloquial. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > specific manner of progressive motion > move progressively in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > idly or aimlessly wantonc1550 random1561 sponge1825 slosh1854 to scull around1921 1921 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 20 Mar. 19/7 My opposite number..has one or two questions pertaining to his own branch sculling around in his mind. 1935 M. Egan Dominant Sex i. 12 Angela. Where have you been these ages? Alec. Oh, sculling round the country on business. 1950 A. P. Herbert Independent Member lxi. 359 The queer-looking spectacled P.O., ‘sculling about’ in his No. 1's astern of the Field-Marshal. 1961 B. Fergusson Watery Maze vi. 151 While these ideas were sculling around Whitehall, there arrived from Moscow..M. Molotov. 1981 ‘J. Ross’ Dark Blue & Dangerous xxiii. 137 What with Wiffen and one or two others who were there sculling about, the picture is a little confusing. < as lemmas |
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