| 单词 |
tosticate |
| 释义 |
tosticate, v.|ˈtɒstɪkeɪt|
Also 9 dial. tossicate.
Usually in pa. pple. tosticated, app. originally a mispronunciation of intoxicated and so used, but later also associated with tossed, tost, and used as = tossed about, distracted, perplexed. So tostiˈcation. Common dialectally; cited in E.D.D. for many counties from W. Yorksh. to Somerset.
1650J. Reynolds Flower of Fidelity 3 His tosticated conceits fixt upon renowned travel. Ibid. 42 Being tosticated with the beauty. 1691Mrs. D'Anvers Academia 8 Madam's most sadly tosticated, Knowing her Boy but empty-pated, Lest the soft Squire might starv'd be, When e're he's sent to th' 'Versity. 1712Swift Jrnl. to Stella xlviii, I have been so tosticated about since my last. 1748Richardson Clarissa xvii. (1810) V. 181, I want these tostications (thou seest how women and women's words fill my mind) to be over. 1811Ora & Juliet I. 32 Get thee to bed..and sleep off that odious strong liquor that has tosticated thy senses. 1828Craven Gloss., Tossicated, tossed, perplexed. Also, drunk. 1881G. F. Jackson Shropsh. Word-bk., Tossicated, harassed; worried,—‘upset’, as by vexation or trouble. |
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