单词 | to shark for |
释义 | > as lemmasto shark for b. To depend on or practise fraud or the arts of a ‘shark’, parasite, or sharper; to live by shifts and stratagems. Often to shark for (something). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > act fraudulently, cheat [verb (intransitive)] > as way of life shift1580 shark1608 shirk1633 to live upon the shark1694 spiv1947 1608 T. Middleton Mad World, my Masters v. sig. Hv I name it gently to you, I terme it neither Pilfer, Cheat, nor Sharke. 1612 B. Jonson Alchemist i. i. sig. b3 Slid, proue to day, who shall sharke best. View more context for this quotation 1615 J. Taylor Revenge in Wks. (1630) ii. 144/1 Couldst thou find no other way, To Sharke, or Shift, or Cony-catch for mony, But to make me thy Asse, thy Foole, thy Cony? 1616 J. Smith Descr. New Eng. 33 Who would..by relating newes of others actions, sharke here or there for a dinner or supper? 1633 J. Hart Κλινικη iii. xxiv. 326 Hee had not a morsell of bread..but what he begged, or else sharked for. 1635 L. Foxe North-west Fox sig. M4 He see him doe nothing but sharke up and downe. 1641 J. Trapp Theologia Theol. 365 To shift and sharke in every bie-corner for comfort. c1672 A. Wood Life (1891) I. 167 Others that..had no money were forced to shark and live as opportunity served. c1672 A. Wood Life (1891) I. 179 To row hastily from it [the little devil], and leave it to shark for it self. 1692 R. L'Estrange Fables ccxli. 210 It was Nature that taught This Boy to Shark. 1709 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. 27 Sept. (O.H.S.) II. 269 He sneaks and sharks about at Bathe. 1765 C. Johnstone Chrysal IV. i. xviii. 122 It is only slipping a puffer or two of quality at them, enough of whom come sharking to every sale for that purpose only. 1812 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. (ed. 2) II. vi. ii. 78 Those vagabond cosmopolites who shark [1809 shirk] about the world, as if they had no right or business in it. 1837 T. Carlyle Diamond Necklace vi, in Fraser's Mag. Jan. 16/2 Thou must hawk and shark to and fro, from anteroom to anteroom. < as lemmas |
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