单词 | caller-off |
释义 | > as lemmascaller-off C1. With adverbs, in compound agent nouns corresponding to phrasal verbs at call v., as caller-away, caller-in, caller-off, caller-on, caller-out, caller-up, etc. (see call v. Phrasal verbs 1). ΚΠ 1530 St. German's Secunde Dyaloge Doctour & Student xli. f. cvi Callers on to haue that poynt reformyd. 1538 T. Elyot Dict. Necromantes, a Necromancer, or caller vp of yll tspirites. 1542 T. Becon New Pollecye of Warre sig. D.vii Yea would god they were not callers backe & vtter despisers of ye same [sc. the syncer word of God]. 1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde ii. vii. f. 77v My importunate caulers on. 1628 J. Earle Micro-cosmogr. xxxiii. sig. F12 His..caller away is his Study. 1685 J. Flavell Πνευματολογια 202 Tertullian calls them [sc. Angels] Evocatores animarum, the Callers forth of Souls. 1772 J. Entick New Spelling Dict. (new ed.) 61/1 Clicker, a caller-in at a shop. 1878 F. S. Williams Midland Railway (ed. 4) 642 The ‘caller-off’ shouts out..the name. 1882 Cent. Mag. Oct. 878/2 The ‘caller-out’..not only calls out the figures, but explains them at length to the ignorant, sometimes accompanying them through the performance. 1899 R. Whiteing No. 5 John St. vi. 47 The caller-up begins his rounds with the dawn. 1917 A. G. Empey Over Top xix. 148 The caller-out has many nicknames for the numbers such as..‘Clickety-click’ for sixty-six. 1991 N.Y. Times Mag. 10 Nov. 24/3 Be the first caller-in to Mr. Limbaugh to pronounce it correctly. < as lemmas |
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