英和和英

名詞

poweration

1. (colloquial, chiefly dialectal) A large amount, a power.
   • 1804, Sporting Magazine: Or, Monthly Calendar of the Transactions of the Turf, the Chase and Every Other Diversion Interesting to the Man of Pleasure, Enterprize, and Spirit, page 111:

     […] he had a poweration of wisdom and learning; he was the greatest […]

   • 1894, The Twentieth Century, page 261:

     […] ride out in scarlet with a poweration of gay ladies. The quality then knew 'ow to behave theirselves.

   • 1939, Edward Joseph O'Brien, John Cournos, The Best British Short Stories of ...:

     […] a poweration of stuff off Taplow; nowt but a few things for my own pot, which a man's a right to.

   • 2002 April 1, Jamie O'Neill, At Swim, Two Boys, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 502:

     Signed then by a poweration of names nor he nor anyone else had heard of. The Lancers had charged here too, it was told. There was a dead horse down the way. All about the steps, flowers were strewn and trampled, where the flower-sellers' stalls had […]

   • 2023 May 20, Beatrice Knight, Alverstone: A Regency Family Saga of Love and War, Maiden Press, →ISBN, page 343:

     […] a poweration o' fleas all-along on the kitlings.