| 单词 |
progging |
| 释义 |
▪ I. progging, vbl. n.|ˈprɒgɪŋ|
[f. prog v.1 + -ing1.]
Soliciting, begging; foraging.
1648Milton Tenure Kings 242 Being called to assemble about reforming the Church, they fell to progging and soliciting the parliament..for a new settling of their tithes and oblations. 1650Needham Case Commw. 54 A People..poor in Body, Pay, and other Accommodations, save what they have purchased by proguing here in England. 1715J. Chappelow Rt. Way Rich (1717) 87 All their plodding and progging is for themselves. 1785Hutton Bran New Wark 412 Careful for nought but progging for belly-timber.
attrib.1663J. Stillingfl. Shecinah Ded., The progging attempts of an ambitious phylargyrist. 1691Wood Ath. Oxon. I. 389 [He] practiced for divers years progging tricks in employing necessitous persons..to get contributions.
▪ II. progging, ppl. a.|ˈprɒgɪŋ|
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That progs, solicits, begs, or forages.
(The sense of quot. 1642 is not clear.)
1622Fletcher & Mass. Span. Curate iii. iii, That man in the Gowne in my opinion Looks like a proaguing knave. 1642H. More Song of Soul ii. i. ii. xvi, But when to plantall life quick sense is ti'd, And progging phansie, then upon her guard She gins to stand. 1650Weldon Crt. Jas. I, ii. 185 Suppressing Promoters, and progging fellows. |
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