单词 | to wipe a person's nose |
释义 | > as lemmasto wipe a person's nose (b) to wipe a person's nose: to cheat or dupe a person; (with of) to defraud a person of. Obsolete. [Compare classical Latin ēmungere to wipe the nose, to trick, swindle, defraud (chiefly in Plautus and Terence: see emunge v.).] ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > think or behave contemptuously [verb (intransitive)] skirpc1175 to make it quainta1393 flout1575 to wipe a person's nose1577 the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > defrauding or swindling > defraud or swindle [verb (intransitive)] to pull a finchc1386 to bore a person's nose?1577 to wipe a person's nose1577 verse1591 lurch1593 to grope a gull1594 cheat1647 to lick (another's) fingers1656 to live upon the shark1694 sharp1709 fineer1765 to pluck a pigeon1769 swindle1769 to run a game1894 to sell (a person) a pup1901 scam1963 society > leisure > sport > winning, losing, or scoring > win, lose, or score [verb (intransitive)] > win > defeat someone to wipe a person's nose1577 to wipe a person's eye1823 the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > defrauding or swindling > perpetrate (a swindle) [verb (transitive)] > defraud or swindle > out of something beguile1394 wrongc1484 delude1493 licka1500 to wipe a person's nose1577 uncle1585 cheat1597 cozen1602 to bob of1605 to bob out of1605 gull1612 foola1616 to set in the nick1616 to worm (a person) out of1617 shuffle1627 to baffle out of1652 chouse1654 trepan1662 bubble1668 trick1698 to bamboozle out of1705 fling1749 jockey1772 swindle1780 twiddle1825 to diddle out of1829 nig1829 to chisel out of1848 to beat out1851 nobble1852 duff1863 flim-flam1890 1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 323/2 Hee deuised a shifte howe to wype the Byshoppes nose of some of his Golde. 1598 R. Bernard tr. Terence Eunuch i. i, in Terence in Eng. 115 The very destruction of our substance: who wipes our noses of all that we should have. 1602 N. Breton Packet of Lett. in Wks. (1879) II. 23 Some body shall wipe their nose for their knauery. 1630 tr. G. Botero Relations Famous Kingdomes World (rev. ed.) 362 Many thinke his nose will be wiped of it. 1667 S. Pepys Diary 17 July (1974) VIII. 343 That..the King [might] own a marriage before his contract..with the Queene, and so wipe their noses of the Crown. 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew at Wipe He Wipt his Nose, c. he gull'd him. 1709 C. Cibber Rival Fools i. 3 I durst lay my Life thou wipest this foolish Knight's Nose of his Mistress at last. to wipe a person's nose a. to wipe a person's nose: †(a) see nose n. Phrases 1a, Phrases 1a(b) (cf. sense 5 above); occasionally, to treat with contempt or indignity; (b) in modern use = 1d (a). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > cheat, swindle [phrase] to pull a finchc1386 to wipe a person's nosea1475 to take (a person) at advantage(s)1523 to play fast and loose1557 to play false1576 to joint a person's nose of?1577 to make a cousin of1580 to sell smoke1589 munge1660 to sell (a person) a packet1886 to beat the count1897 to sell (a person) a pup1901 to hand (someone) a lemon1906 to sell (someone) a bill of goods1927 a1475 ( Libel Eng. Policy (Vitell.) 176 Thus they wold..Wypen our nose with our owne sleve. 1568 V. Skinner tr. R. González de Montes Discouery Inquisition of Spayne f. 10 The party must..seeke to wipe their noses by shaping them a shorte aunswere. 1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 323/2 Hee deuised a shifte howe to wype the Byshoppes nose of some of his Golde. 1598 R. Bernard tr. Terence Eunuch i. i, in Terence in Eng. 115 The very destruction of our substance: who wipes our noses of all that we should have. 1599–1600 Minutes Archdeaconry of Colchester Jan. lf. 247 (MS.) Her husband..dyd saye that ‘I will wype the noses of you all’. 1842 Asiatic Jrnl. & Monthly Reg. 37 i. 235 He once or twice, to borrow a not very delicate sporting phrase, ‘wiped my nose’ in a very off-hand manner. 1852 R. S. Surtees Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour xi. lviii. 330 ‘I could have wiped your nose,’ exclaimed Mr. Sponge, covering the hare with a hedge-stake placed to his shoulder like a gun. < as lemmas |
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