giddy-up

英文词源


giddy-up (interj.)
command to a horse to go, 1909, probably an extended form of earlier giddap (1867), itself probably from get up. Compare gee.
The terms used to start horses in harness and to urge them to a better appreciation of the value of time comprise vulgar corruptions of ordinary speech and peculiar inarticulate sounds. Throughout England and the United States drivers start their horses by picking up the reins, drawing them gently against the animals' mouths, and exclaiming go 'long and get up; the latter appears in the forms get ap (a as in hat), giddap, and gee-hup or gee-up. [H. Carrington Bolton, "Talking to Domestic Animals," in "The American Anthropologist," March 1897]

双语例句


1. Anthony was giddy with self-satisfaction.
安东尼自鸣得意,忘乎所以。

来自柯林斯例句

2. Being there gave me a giddy pleasure.
身处那个地方让我激动得难以自持。

来自柯林斯例句

3. When I looked down from the top floor, I felt giddy.
我从顶楼朝下看时感到头晕目眩。

来自《权威词典》

4. Some boys are always playing the giddy goat, behaving foolishly.
有些男孩子常常胡闹, 举止荒唐.

来自《简明英汉词典》

5. I was giddy with the heat.
我热得头晕脑胀.

来自《简明英汉词典》

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