单词 | got |
释义 | got, ppl. a.|gɒt| [Shortened pa. pple. of get v.: see gotten.] Gained, acquired; gathered as a crop (see the verb). Now only with adv. prefixed, as ill got, well got.
1593–1753 [see ill-got]. 1613–16W. Browne Brit. Past. ii. iv. 80 Fate drew them on to be A greater Fame to our got Victory. 1806Fessenden Democr. II. 142 Provided he can save himself Together with his ill got pelf. 1852Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. XIII. ii. 296 The value of well-got hay is duly appreciated. b. Comb. with advs.: got-at (see get v. 38 a, b); got-up, artificially produced, elaborated, or adorned, for purposes of effect or deception (see get v. 80 l, m); also, † (well) equipped in a subject.
1818Lady Morgan Autobiog. (1859) 199 He snubbed me..for exposing my ignorance to these well got-up Doctrinaires. 1826R. H. Froude Remains (1838) I. 86, I believe it to be..a got-up business for effect. 1841L. S. Costello Pilgr. Auvergne I. 336 Plaited collars and delicately got-up linen. 1855Smedley Coverdale xviii, Such follies are very well for got up puppies. 1871Earle Philol. Eng. Tongue 217 The symbolics in Greek have grown spontaneously, while their Latin analogues have a got-up and cultivated look. 1871Geo. Eliot Middlem. i. xii, Stuff and nonsense! I don't believe a word of it. It's all a got-up story. 1880Daily Tel. 3 Dec., The principal publishing houses prepare magnificently got-up books which are works of art in themselves. 1883Times (weekly ed.) 28 Dec. 6/4 Some days after this little got-up play, which seemed to have produced the desired effect. 1891Sat. Rev. 12 Sept. 313/1 The abundance of easily-got-at material. Hence got-up n. colloq., an upstart.
1881Macm. Mag. XLIV. 383 How dare that ‘got-up’ give himself airs with his horses and dogs! |

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