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grabble
動詞
grabble (三人称単数 現在形 grabbles, 現在分詞 grabbling, 過去形および過去分詞形 grabbled)
- (intransitive) To search with one's hands and fingers; to attempt to grasp something.
- 1614, John Taylor, Water-Worke: or, The Sculler’s Travels, Dedication, in All the Works of John Taylor the Water Poet, London: James Boler, 1630, reprinted for the Spenser Society, 1869,[4]
- 1689, John Selden, Table-Talk, London: E. Smith, “Presbytery,” pp. 48-49,[5]
- 1741, Samuel Richardson, Pamela, London: C. Rivington and J. Osborn, Volume 1, Letter 31, p. 202,[6]
- 1887, Oscar Wilde, “The Canterville Ghost,” Chapter III, in Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime & Other Stories, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., 1891, p. 113,[7]
- 1959, William Arrowsmith (translator), The Satyricon of Petronius, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, Chapter 16, p. 157,[8]
- (intransitive, obsolete) To search in a similar way using an implement.
- (transitive) To touch (someone) with one's hands or fingers, sometimes in a sexual way.
- 1719, Thomas d'Urfey, “Willey’s Intreague” in Wit and Mirth: or Pills to Purge Melancholy, London: J. Tonson, 1876 reprint, p. 195,[10]
- 2006, Ruth Francisco, The Secret Memoirs of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: A Novel, New York: St. Martin’s Press, “The Manikin,” p. 299,[11]
- I struggle, confused, frightened, which he mistakes for excitement, grabbling my breasts, scrubbing them in circles as he plunges his tongue.
- 2008, Lisa Gabriele, The Almost Archer Sisters, New York: Simon & Schuster, Chapter 4, p. 47,[12]
- (transitive) To pick (something または someone) up hastily, roughly or clumsily.[1]
- 1895, Stephen Crane, “A Mystery of Heroism” in Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and Selected Stories, New York: Signet, 1991, p. 119,[13]
- He grabbled one of the canteens and, unfastening its cap, swung it down by the cord.
- 1915, Carolyn Wells, The White Alley, Philadelphia: Lippincott, Chapter 11,[14]
- 1934, Angela Thirkell, The Demon in the House, Part 3, Chapter 5,[15]
- 1962, Meindert DeJong, The Singing Hill, New York: Harper & Row, Chapter 7, p. 110,[16]
- (transitive) To attempt to grab; to grasp at (something).
- (transitive) To pull, lift or dig (something) (out of the ground) by searching with one's hands and fingers.[2]
- 1865, W. W. McCarty, “History of Captain W. W. McCarty’s Prison Life, and Southern Prisons,” in History of the 78th Regiment O.V.V.I., Zanesville, OH: Hugh Dunne, p. 302,[18]
- 1902, Martha McCulloch-Williams, Next to the Ground: Chronicles of a Countryside, New York: McClure, Philips, Chapter 9, pp. 203-204,[19]
- 1910, J. C. Cooper (ed.), Walnut Growing in Oregon, Passenger Department, Portland, OR: Oregon Railroad and Navigation Co., Southern Pacific Company Lines in Oregon, p. 17,[20]
- 1924, United States Department of Labor, Child Labor and the Work of Mothers on Norfolk Truck Farms, Bureau Publication No. 30, Washington: Government Printing Office, p. 11,[21]
- 1956, William L. Crosthwait and Ernest G. Fischer, The Last Stitch, Philadelphia: Lippincott, “Off to the War,” p. 194,[22]
- (transitive, obsolete) To lift (something) out in a similar way using an implement.
- 1596, William Clowes, A Profitable and Necessarie Booke of Obseruations, London: Thomas Dawson, “The cure of Lues Venerea,” p. 181,[23]
- […] set all these togither on the fire, & boile them till the wine and water be consumed, and that the flesh and bones be separated a sunder, that you may with a paire of tongs grabble out the bones from the rest, thus let it be taken off and pressed through a piece of canuas, and keepe it to your use.
- 1596, William Clowes, A Profitable and Necessarie Booke of Obseruations, London: Thomas Dawson, “The cure of Lues Venerea,” p. 181,[23]
- (transitive, intransitive, now Southeastern 米国用法) To catch fish by reaching into the water with one's hand.
- 1868, J. C. Wilcocks, The Sea-Fisherman, London: Longmans, Green, 2nd edition, p. 125,[24]
- 1911, S. J. Kennerly, The Story of Sam Tag, New York: The Cosmopolitan Press, Chapter 14, p. 149,[25]
- 1930, William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying, New York: Vintage, 1964, “Vardaman,” p. 143,[26]
- 1994, Clyde Bolton, The Lost Sunshine, Montgomery, AL: Black Belt Press, Chapter 1, p. 12,[27]
- (transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To fish on the grabble.
- (transitive, intransitive) To utter inarticulate sounds, often quickly and loudly; to say (something) quickly, idly or foolishly.
- 1868, Sheridan Le Fanu, “Squire Toby’s Will” in Best Ghost Stories of J. S. Le Fanu, New York: Dover, 1964, p. 17,[29]
- 1941, Ngaio Marsh, Death of a Peer, New York: Jove Books, 1980, Chapter 17, p. 253,[30]
- “We are very grateful to you for coming, sir,” said Alleyn.
- “Not at all, not at all,” grabbled Mr. Rattisbon. “Shocking affair. Dreadful.”
- 1979, Lawrence Kamarck, Informed Sources, New York: Dial, Chapter 14, p. 120,[31]
- (intransitive, obsolete) To lie prostrate; to sprawl on the ground.
- 1584, uncredited translator (attributed to Barnabe Rich), The Famous Hystory of Herodotus, London: Thomas Marshe, Book 2,[32]
- 1637, James Day, “On contempt of the World” in A New Spring of Divine Poetrie, London: Humphry Blunden, p. 40,[33]
- 1679, John Bunyan, A Treatise of the Fear of God, London: N. Ponder, p. 201,[34]
派生語
名詞
grabble (uncountable)
参照
- ^ Francis Grose, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, London: Hooper and Wigstead, 1796, 3rd edition: “TO GRABBLE. To seize.”[1]
- ^ B. W. Green, Virginia Folk-Speech, Richmond, 1899, p. 166: “Grabble, v. To dig out of the ground with the hands.”[2]
- ^ T. F. Salter, The Angler’s Guide, London: Sherwood, 1825, pp. 367-368.[3]
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