单词 | twitting |
释义 | twittingn. 1. The action or fact of censuring, reproaching, or upbraiding a person, activity, etc., esp. in a good-humoured or teasing way; teasing, taunting. Also: an instance of this; a taunt, a jibe. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > reproach > [noun] edwitc825 onsawOE teenOE upbrixlec1175 lasting?c1225 upbrud?c1225 upbraidc1275 upbraidingc1275 upbraidinga1300 umbraidc1330 atwiting1340 reprocec1350 reprocingc1350 reprucec1350 again-chidinga1382 brixlinga1400 reproachc1405 edwitinga1425 rebukec1454 forwitting1481 improperation1502 outbraiding1509 exprobration1526 checking1535 impropery1542 reproaching1542 braiding1552 improbation1556 taunting1563 twitting1565 upbraying1585 reproachmentc1592 umbraiding1597 monishment1896 1565 T. Harding Confut. Apol. Church of Eng. iii. vi. f. 149 These Defenders be like in conditions to..Scoldes. Whose propertie is..to..most commonly requitte a frendly warning with bitter twiting of the same vice, they were warned of. 1592 A. Day 2nd Pt. Eng. Secretorie sig. H2v, in Eng. Secretorie (rev. ed.) Tush pedegree, pedegree, here is nothing with you in hand but twitting with pedegree. a1614 D. Dyke Sixe Evangelical Hist. (1617) 277 Withall here is a secret twitting of the woman, with her vnkindnes, in denying him water. 1686 F. Spence tr. C. de Saint-Évremond Miscellanea 10 The French must take that twitting very kindly from them. 1774 A. Gib Present Truth II. App. iii. 370 It next turns upon a twitting of the Synod over and over, by an argumentum ad hominem. 1852 J. D. Canning Harp & Plow 155 To have less wordy war, Less blazonry, billingsgate, twitting, and pun. 1891 E. Gosse Gossip in Library xiv. 175 The only rough thing he ever did was the result of one such twitting. 1967 Jrnl. Mod. Hist. 39 204/2 It is peppered with the wry digs, gentle twittings, and ironies that characterize so much of recent American history and fiction. 2005 Toronto Star (Nexis) 13 Mar. d6 The spirit of the enterprise is unflinching self-consciousness..and playful twitting of such bookish conventions as tables of contents and acknowledgement pages. ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > rumour > [noun] > tale-bearing murmurationc1485 tattling1547 talebearing1571 by-babbling1614 twittinga1643 gossiping1712 gossipry1818 gossipred1828 a1643 W. Cartwright Ordinary (1651) iv. iv. 68 D'y' think I would undo me self by twitting?.. I'm faithfull, And secret, though a Barber. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). twittingadj. That twits or taunts; reproachful, censorious; mocking, teasing. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > [adjective] gamelyOE hathfula1250 scornfula1400 hathlya1425 mockisha1513 mockinga1529 mowinga1529 deriding1530 hethingfulc1540 bourding1552 make-sport1582 frumping1587 yarking1593 jerking1596 bobbing1605 derident1609 buffoonizing1611 scoptical?1611 scommatizing1613 derisory1618 ridiculous1622 ludibriousa1643 frumpish1647 twitting1655 derisivea1662 derisorious1664 scoptic1670 ridiculing1684 derisionarya1704 mockful1754 irrisory1846 the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > dispraise or discommendation > [adjective] > censuring or condemning censorious1536 judging1546 controlling1564 condemnatory1570 convictory1576 censorical1589 censorial1592 censurious1604 censuringa1616 condemning1642 reprobating1645 outbraiding1655 twitting1655 reprobatory1657 perstrictive1659 damnatory1682 reprobative1785 1655 F. G. tr. ‘G. de Scudéry’ Artamenes IV. vii. iii. 176 A twitting kind of jest. a1876 T. Aird Poet. Wks. (1878) i. vii. 225 Why do you name it? You had better tell me too, with twitting tongue,..The man I hate Has robbed me of my love! 1956 Poetry 87 242 There is also, at one point, a twitting note, regarding certain Dial policies of the earlier years. 1977 Washington Post 23 Jan. g5/3 This twitting reference to Philadelphia's image problem is being made in..the city's Convention and Visitors Bureau. 2002 N. Lamm Seventy Faces II. x. 275 Forgive me for daring to disturb the eternal and infinite and endless cry of anguish..with twitting and wayward words. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1565adj.1655 |
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