| 单词 | to touch up |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto touch up to touch up 1. transitive. To improve by means of minor changes or additions; spec. to modify or improve in appearance by small, light, or precise applications of paint, make-up, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > improvement > [verb (transitive)] > with slight or fresh touches tickle1567 retoucha1650 to touch up1656 fine-tune1967 1656 J. Harrington Common-wealth of Oceana 170 He would have touched up his admirable work unto that perfection, which, as to the civil part, hath no pattern in the universall World, but this of Venice. 1715 J. Addison Freeholder No. 44. ⁋3 What he saw was..her natural Countenance, touched up with the usual Improvements of an aged Coquette. 1748 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 45 173 All the illuminated Sets were..touch'd up and finish'd by his own Hand. 1860 W. M. Thackeray Screens in Dining-rooms in Roundabout Papers (1869) 59 Suppose the Editor..never ‘touched up’ one single line of the contribution. 1891 Cent. Dict. at Stuff A composition of the ashes of cork, ivory-black, and gall with treacle, made into a ball, and used with water for touching up the dark parts of the plate. 1944 J. B. Parry in R. Greenhalgh Pract. Builder viii. 282/2 Alabastine filler..should afterwards be smoothed down with glass-paper and excessive absorption checked by touching-up with paint. 1992 N.Y. Times 17 Aug. a8/1 This time, he does not have the help of Peggy Noonan, his super-speechwriter, to touch up his prose. 2013 Express (Nexis) 1 Nov. She puts on her sparkliest top, touches up her make-up and heads to a flourishing singles' nights scene. 2. transitive. slang (chiefly British). To have sexual contact with; to fondle or caress intimately; (now esp.) to do this surreptitiously, without consent, and for one's own sexual gratification. Cf. to feel up at feel v. Phrasal verbs. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > action of caressing > caress [verb (transitive)] > caress in order to excite sexually to rub up1656 to touch up1785 titillate1871 touch1892 the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > engage in sexual activity with [verb (transitive)] > have sexual intercourse with > specifically of a man jape1382 overliec1400 swivec1405 foilc1440 overlay?a1475 bed1548 possess1592 knock1598 to get one's leg over1599 enjoy1602 poke1602 thrum1611 topa1616 riga1625 swingea1640 jerk1650 night-work1654 wimble1656 roger1699 ruta1706 tail1778 to touch up1785 to get into ——c1890 root1922 to knock up1934 lay1934 pump1937 prong1942 nail1948 to slip (someone) a length1949 to knock off1953 thread1958 stuff1960 tup1970 nut1971 pussy1973 service1973 1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue To touch up a woman, to have carnal knowledge of her. 1903 J. S. Farmer & W. E. Henley Slang VII. ii. 177/2 Touch... verb... (or to touch up), to grope a woman. 1958 L. Little Dear Boys (1960) i. iv. 30 Old Willie wanting to touch you up when his missus was out of the way. 1973 C. Egleton Seven Days to Killing iv. 48 Good-looking tart... I wouldn't have minded her touching me up. 2015 MailOnline (Nexis) 15 Aug. She claims he once touched her up. 3. transitive. a. To strike or hit (an animal, person, etc.); esp. to strike with, or as if with, a whip in order to urge on or cause to hasten. Cf. sense 3a. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > authority > power > influence > have influence with [verb (transitive)] > exert influence upon weighc1571 sway1593 subject1605 to have its end(s) upon1638 influence1658 ponderate1670 operate1674 to touch up1791 protocol1832 rig1908 1791 Abridgm. Minutes of Evid. Comm. Slave-trade (House of Commons) 39 One or two white drivers who have only sticks to lean on..direct the black drivers to touch up those [slaves] they think remiss. 1810 Sporting Mag. 35 34 (Single Stick) Maslen set to with great confidence, sharply touching up the right arm of his antagonist. 1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xxxii. 307 He let out his whip-lash and touched up a little boy on the calves of his legs. 1844 J. H. Carleton Prairie Logbks. 30 Aug. (1983) 93 This officer would slyly touch up the horses, when off they would start. 1902 ‘Mrs. Alexander’ Stronger than Love viii. 112 She touched up the ponies, and brought them over the bridge..at a great pace. 1951 S. H. Bell December Bride i. viii. 60 ‘Did she lay the table?’ Martha asked. ‘I didna pay any heed,’ answered Hamilton, touching up the horse. b. figurative. To stimulate, motivate, encourage, rouse; to stir the emotions or feelings of. Also: to prompt or remind (a person) to do something. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > memory > reminder, putting in mind > remind [verb (transitive)] mingOE mina1200 bethink1340 recorda1382 reducec1425 rememberc1425 rememorate1460 mind1524 revive?1564 remembrance1593 recall1595 prompt1600 remind1621 enmind1645 immind1647 refricate1657 commonish1661 flap1790 to touch up1796 the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > effect produced on emotions > have an effect on [verb (transitive)] gravec1374 bitec1400 rapt?1577 infecta1586 to come (also get, go) home to1625 to screw up1644 strike1672 strikea1701 impress1736 to touch up1796 to burn into1823 knock1883 hit1891 impressionize1894 the mind > emotion > excitement > exciting > excite [verb (transitive)] astirc1000 stir?c1225 araisec1374 entalentc1374 flamec1380 reara1382 raisec1384 commove1393 kindlea1400 fluster1422 esmove1474 talent1486 heavec1540 erect?1555 inflame1560 to set on gog1560 yark1565 tickle1567 flesh1573 concitate1574 rouse1574 warmc1580 agitate1587 spirit1598 suscitate1598 fermentate1599 nettle1599 startle1602 worka1616 exagitate1621 foment1621 flush1633 exacuatea1637 ferment1667 to work up1681 pique1697 electrify1748 rattle1781 pump1791 to touch up1796 excite1821 to key up1835 to steam up1909 jazz1916 steam1922 volt1930 whee1949 to fire up1976 geek1984 the mind > will > motivation > persuasion > persuade (a person) [verb (transitive)] leada1225 accoya1375 form1399 persuadec1450 persuadec1487 practise1524 temper1525 work1532 suade1548 perduce1563 to draw on1567 overdraw1603 possess1607 bring1611 sway1625 tickle1677 tamper1687 to touch up1796 to put the comether on someone1818 1796 T. Morton Way to get Married iii. iii. 61 You will make the affidavit, and I will touch him up with a bit of a capias. 1811 J. Austen Sense & Sensibility III. iv. 88 We must touch up the Colonel to do something to the parsonage. View more context for this quotation 1846 C. Dickens Let. 28 Mar. (1977) IV. 528 I hope you mean to go to the General Theatrical Fund Dinner on Monday Week... Let me know, that I may touch up the Committee to place you near me. c1863 T. Taylor in M. R. Booth Eng. Plays of 19th Cent. (1969) II. 140 The roughs adore music..and as for sentiment and sensation, if you could hear Miss St. Evremond touch them up with the ‘Maniac's Tear’, the new sensation ballad [etc.]. 1884 E. W. Hamilton Diary 10 Mar. (1972) II. 573 Slavery is a matter which specially touches up the British public. 1923 M. Garvey Philos. & Opinions II. 112 Some people sleep too soundly, when it comes to a question of human rights, and you have to touch them up with something more than our ordinary human voice. 1968 Life 27 Sept. 23/1 I just wanted to touch them up a little bit. Even now when a man writes something I think is really unjust, he hears from me. < as lemmas |
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