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单词 to play the goodfellow
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to play the goodfellow
P1. to play the goodfellow: to socialize in a hedonistic or pleasure-seeking way; esp. to spend an excessive amount of time in eating, drinking, and merrymaking; to revel, roister, carouse. Now rare.Common from the mid 16th to the mid 17th centuries.
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the mind > emotion > pleasure > merriment > be merry [verb (intransitive)]
blissc897
spilea1000
merryOE
to make good cheera1275
blithea1400
gleea1400
to play the goodfellow1563
jolly1610
to keep Hilary term1618
gaya1629
jovialize1640
society > leisure > social event > a merrymaking or convivial occasion > merrymaking or conviviality > make merry [verb (intransitive)]
to make feast?c1225
to make merryc1330
merrymakec1395
to have a good (bad, etc.) time (of it, formerly on it)1509
to make pleasant1530
gaud1532
to play the goodfellow1563
company1591
junket1607
rage1979
1563 A. Golding tr. L. Bruni Hist. Warres Imperialles & Gothes ii. viii. f. 85 If the Frenchmen came into Italy, it was not to be doubted that they shuld get the vpper hand, but it was a difficulte matter to be beleued, that they would keepe touche and play the good fellowes in parting of the Empyre.
1566 J. Barthlet Pedegrewe Heretiques 50 A pardon for a Nunne that hath often played the good fellowe both without and within the Cloyster, with a clause that shall enioy the dignities of that order, yea to be Abbesse, ye price therof is .36. Turnois .9. Ducats.
1594 T. Nashe Terrors of Night sig. Eiij Hee was wont to iest and sport wyth countrey people, and play the good fellowe amongst kitchin-wenches.
1606 G. W. tr. Justinus Hist. 135 a A kinswoman of the kings..being wont to play the goodfellowe with a certaine young man of the Greeks, as she imbraced him..vtterred the matter vnto him.
1626 H. Burton Plea to Appeale 1 A man may not sweare an oath (forsooth) nor play the good fellow a little, in drinking a cup or two more then needs.
1657 W. Rumsey Organon Salutis (1659) Ep. Ded. 19 They use now to play the Good-fellows in this wakeful and civil drink [coffee].
1667 S. Pepys Diary 14 Oct. (1974) VIII. 481 I suppose he is playing the goodfellow in the town.
1759 L. Sterne Polit. Romance 19 Trim, you must know, by foul Feeding, and playing the good Fellow at the Parson's, was grown somewhat gross about the lower Parts.
1881 E. H. Hickey Sculptor 51 Then fortune who, belike, was bid to the feast, And meant to play the Goodfellow thereat, Among them did a pleasant adventure bring.
1934 B. Creighton tr. ‘B. Traven’ Treasure of Sierra Madre (1935) 37 Pat knew how to play the good fellow, even the Bolshevik comrade, to catch his men cheap.
2010 J. Picciotto Labors of Innocence iv. 299 To be persuaded to play the good-fellow in coffee is to leave good fellowship behind.
extracted from goodfellown.adj.
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