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单词 to play the loon
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to play the loon
a. A worthless person; a rogue, scamp (esp. in false loon, to play the loon); a sluggard, idler.
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the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > sloth or laziness > [noun] > lazy person > an idler or loafer
lurdanc1330
player1340
moochera1425
loon?c1450
lounger?a1513
idler1534
rest man1542
holiday-woman1548
baty bummill1568
bummill baty1568
friar-fly?1577
idol1579
lingerer1579
loll1582
idleby1589
shit-rags1598
blaitie bum1602
idle1635
Lollard1635
loiterer1684
saunterer1688
scobberlotchera1697
bumble1786
quisby1789
waffler1805
shoat1808
loafer1830
bummer1855
dead beat1863
bum1864
scowbanker1864
schnorrer1875
scowbank1881
ikey1906
layabout1932
lie-about1937
spine-basher1946
limer1964
?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) l. 7957 Þe clerkis þat were þare, leþir lowens [rhyme chenouns].
a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Fox, Wolf, & Husbandman l. 2413 in Poems (1981) 90 Than lychtlie in the bukket lap the loun:..The tod come hailland vp, the volff ȝeid doun.
1508 W. Kennedy Flyting (Chepman & Myllar) in Poems W. Dunbar (1998) I. 216 Fra honest folk deuoide this lathly lown.
c1530 A. Barclay Egloges ii. sig. Jiv That men shall call the malapert or dronke Or an abbey lowne, or lymner of a monke.
1548 W. Patten Exped. Scotl. G. viii b Cum here loundes, cum here tykes.
1571 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xxviii. 68 To loup on lassis, lait, and play the Lowne.
a1593 C. Marlowe Edward II (1594) sig. B4 For shame subscribe, and let the lowne depart.
a1600 A. Montgomerie Misc. Poems xxxiii. 36 Let not sik louns with teasings ȝou allure.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) ii. iii. 85 He held'em [sc. breeches] sixpence all too deere, With that he cald the Taylor lowne.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) v. iii. 11 The diuell damne thee blacke, thou cream-fac'd Loone . View more context for this quotation
1637 S. Rutherford Lett. (1863) I. 289 Looking on with their hands folded behind their back when louns are running with the spoil of Zion on their back.
1691 J. Ray N. Country Words in Coll. Eng. Words (ed. 2) 46 The Scots say, a fausse, i.e. false Loon.
1700 J. Dryden Chaucer's Cock & Fox in Fables 245 But the false Loon who cou'd not work his Will By open Force, employ'd his flatt'ring Skill.
1763 C. Churchill Prophecy of Famine 18 When with a foreign loon she stole away.
1851 H. W. Longfellow Golden Legend iv. 203 Out upon him, the lazy loon!
appositively.16.. in Row Hist. Kirk (Wodrow Soc.) 392 Christ's minister may not preach Christ's trueth, if a loun minister neare by him have taught lies, except the Bishop give him leave so to doe.
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