单词 | to play the loon |
释义 | > as lemmasto play the loon a. A worthless person; a rogue, scamp (esp. in false loon, to play the loon); a sluggard, idler. ΘΚΠ 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! < as lemmas |
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