| 单词 | varsity match |
| 释义 | > as lemmasvarsity match a. University. Now (in the U.K.) somewhat jocular except in varsity match, a sporting contest, esp. the annual Rugby football match between the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. ΘΚΠ society > education > place of education > college or university > [noun] > university universityc1300 general studya1382 schoolsc1400 college1459 ninneversitya1592 studium1610 studium generale1647 versityc1680 varsity1846 Univ1896 uni1898 U1910 society > leisure > sport > match or competition > [noun] > types of all comersc1450 after-gamea1500 fore-game1594 revenge1616 plate1639 set-to1743 return match1753 bye1754 scrub-race1791 anybody's game (also race, match)1826 return1834 barney1843 bonspiel1858 handicap1861 pennant1865 home-and-home1868 benefit match1871 run-off1873 international1877 American tournament1878 Grand Prix1879 single1884 friendly1885 all-comers1889 pair1890 championship1893 round robin1894 replay1895 Olympiad1896 junior varsity1902 lightning tournament1903 rematch1903 road trip1903 pickup1905 freestyle1906 marathon1908 test1908 Derby1909 scrimmage1910 eliminator1911 twosome1911 triala1914 quadrangular1916 slug-fest1916 varsity match1921 needle contest1922 curtain jerker1923 needle match1923 open1926 needle fight1927 knock-out1928 shirt1930 masters1933 pro-amateur1934 tune-up1934 World Cup1934 pro-am1937 state1941 sizzler1942 runathon1943 mismatch1954 run-out1955 match-up1959 squeaker1961 triple-header1961 Super Bowl1967 invitational1968 needle game1970 major1976 slobberknocker1986 1846 in Brasenose Ale 84 To victory we steered, And o'er the vanquished Varsity Our flag triumphant reared. 1863 Baily's Monthly Mag. Jan. 360 I had conjured up all the most extravagant and erroneous ideas as to my ‘Varsity career’. 1872 H. Kingsley Hornby Mills II. 66 I have such faith in the old University (never use that horrid word 'varsity, my lad; don't vulgarise the old place). 1885 A. Edwardes Girton Girl III. xvi. 291 I'm darned..if it be'ant my Varsity man, after all! 1888 Quiller-Couch in Echoes fr. the Oxf. Mag. (1890) 105 We'll dance at the 'Varsity Ball. 1908 E. H. W. Meyerstein Let. 21 Oct. (1959) 33 It seems to me that the real attractions of varsity life are reserved for the sportsman and the loafer. 1921 Granta 30 Nov. 146/1 What would you do if in the 'Varsity match just as you were off, on a clear half-way run down the field somebody ripped your shorts off? 1927 C. Connolly Let. 25 Jan. in Romantic Friendship (1975) 228 O blessed chastity (rare at the varsity). 1967 F. Sargeson Hangover iii. 19 And that damn cleaning man across from the varsity. 1979 Times 6 Dec. 4 (heading) The varsity match. 1982 Guardian Weekly 27 June 23 [He] would become the first university Blue to miss the Varsity match because he will be playing [cricket] for England. 1982 Guardian Weekly 19 Dec. 23 Cambridge won 20-13, but on the next day Oxford had some revenge in winning the soccer varsity match at Wembley 4–2. 1983 Metro (Auckland) Feb. 13/4 Instead he went to varsity with the ambition of taking a science degree. < as lemmas |
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