单词 | to take snuff |
释义 | > as lemmasto take snuff b. to take snuff, to take offence or umbrage (at a thing). Obsolete exc. archaic.In quot. 1821 associated with snuff n.3 (cf. pepper n. 4b). ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > anger > indignation or resentment > be indignant at or resent [verb (transitive)] to take in (also on, to) griefc1325 to bear (a person or thing) hard (also heavily, heavy, etc.)c1384 to take agrief?a1400 disdaina1513 stomach1523 to take it amiss1530 to have a grudge against (to, at)1531 to think amiss1533 envy1557 to take‥in (the) snuff (or to snuff)1560 to take snuff1565 to take scorn1581 to take indignly1593 to bear (one) upon (also in) the spleen1596 spleena1629 disresent1652 indign1652 miff1797 pin1934 1565 W. Allen Def. & Declar. Doctr. Purgatory ii. xiv. f. 262 Aërius,..taking snoffe that he could not get a bisshoprike, fell in to the hæresy of Arius. 1597 T. Beard Theatre Gods Iudgements i. xxxiii. 188 The yonker taking snuffe thereat, why said hee takest thou thought for mee? 1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. ii. 211 Which the Manksmen hearing, tooke such a snuffe and indignation thereat, that they sent for Olaue. 1640 T. Fuller Joseph's Coat 45 Let us heed, how we take snuffe at the simplicity of Gods Ordinance. 1692 R. L'Estrange Fables i. clxxxv. 156 Jupiter took Snuff at the Contempt, and Punish'd him for't. 1725 New Canting Dict. (at cited word) To take Snuff, to take Pet. 1821 W. Scott Kenilworth I. i. 18 But take no snuff in the nose about it. 1876 G. H. Kingsley in Temple Bar Oct. 167 With hearty hoping that North Britons will not take huffe nor snuffe at these kindly criticisms.] < as lemmas |
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