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单词 to pick a thank
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to pick a thank (also thanks)
a. transitive. to pick a thank (also thanks): to curry favour. Cf. pickthank n. and adj. Obsolete.
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the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > flattery or flattering > servile flattery or currying favour > flatter servilely or curry favour with [verb (transitive)]
flatter1340
to claw the back ofc1394
to pick a thank (also thanks)c1422
clawc1425
to claw by the sleeve1509
to claw by the backa1542
fawna1568
to make or pay (one's) court to1590
adulate1612
hug1622
sycophant1637
to make up to1701
to whip it in with1702
cultivate1706
incense1708
to wheedle in with1726
to grandfather up1747
slaver1794
toad1802
to play up to ——1809
nut1819
toady1827
bootlick1846
to suck up to1860
lickspittle1886
jolly1890
bum-suck1918
arse-lick1919
to cosy up to1937
brown-nose1948
ass-kiss1951
ass-lick1962
love-bomb1976
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1558 W. Forrest Hist. Grisild the Second (1875) v. 49 Some wycked theare weare, at his exitation, (To picke a thanke of hym their soueraygne) That prompted Walter after this fashyon.
1578 J. Lyly Euphues f. 12v Least I should seeme eyther to picke a thanke with men or a quarrel with women.
1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. vi. xxvi. 235 I will not..pick my selfe a privat thanke for a publike benefit.
a1648 Ld. Herbert Life Henry VIII (1649) 418 Some..that would now perchance pick them thank without desert.
1691 J. Dunton Voy. round World III. i. 19 Some make it their sport to do ill Offices, others do them only to pick a thank.
1706 Let. to Author Memorial State of Eng. 23 What Occasion..there could be for your picking Thanks and Faults at the same time upon the Account of these Gentlemen I cannot any Way discover.
β. c1422 T. Hoccleve Tale of Jerelaus (Durh.) l. 399 in Minor Poems (1970) i. 154 In [al] the world so louynge tendrenesse Is noon, as is the loue of a womman To hir chyld namely &..To hire housbonde also, where-of witnesse We weddid men may bere..And so byhoueth a thank vs to pyke.a1450 (c1412) T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum (Harl. 4866) (1897) 3048 A þank to pike, His lordys wil and witte he iustifieth.?1529 R. Hyrde tr. J. L. Vives Instr. Christen Woman ii. vii. sig. f.ijv Let her stoppe her eares vnto suche as tell her ill of her husbande, and thynke they do hit but to pyke a thanke.1549 M. Coverdale et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. II. 2 Pet. ii. f. xviiv False prophetes..whiche eyther to pyke a thanke at ye princes hande, or elles..for hatred of other, prophecied the thinge, whiche the spirite of God spake not.1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries Pref. sig. Avv Manye of those wryters, seke to pike a thanke.
extracted from pickv.1
to pick (get, win) a thank
to pick (get, win) a thank: see pick v.1 14a. Obsolete.extracted from thankn.
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