Bumble bee
Sizzle
to blunder, from Middle
English bomblen (to
boom)
A bumblebee (also
spelled as bumble bee)
is any member of the
bee genus Bombus, in
the family Apidae. They
are characterized by are
characterised by black
and yellow body hairs,
often in
bands. Etymonline:
1520s, replacing M.E.
humbul-be, alt. by
assoc. with M.E.
bombeln "to boom,
buzz," echoic, from PIE
base *kem "to hum,"
echoic.
bumblebee (1500-1600) bumble “to make a low
continuous sound” ((14-17 centuries)) (from the
sound) + bee
to burn with a hissing
sound, buzz
sizzle (1600-1700) From the sound
puffed at
If someone puffs at a
cigarette, cigar, or pipe,
they smoke it
Hush
to put at rest, stop
talking, make quiet
Six little soldier boys playing with
a hive;
A bumble bee stung one and
then there were Five.
Two little soldier boys sitting in
the sun;
One got frizzled up and then
there was One.
puff1 Old English pyffan, from the sound
In the corner of a first-class
Old English pyffan; related to Dutch
smoking carriage, Mr Justice
German puffen, Swiss pfuffen, Norwegian puffa, all Wargrave, lately retired from the
of imitative origin
bench, puffed at a cigar and ran
an interested eye through the
political news in The Times.
hush1 (1500-1600) husht “silent, hushed” ((15-19
centuries)), from husht a word used to tell people
to keep quiet
Jonas knew for a fact that it had
been purchased by the Admiralty
В углу курительного
вагона первого класса
судья Уоргрейв – он
недавно вышел в
отставку – попыхивал
сигарой и просматривал
отдел политики в
«Таймс».
«Джонасу» было
доподлинно известно –
остров приобрело
command to be quiet,
often paired with
holding the index finger
vertically against the
lips
ADJECTIVE
Something that is hush-hush is secret and not to
be discussed with other people.
[informal]
Apparently there's a very hush-hush project under
way up north.
They were desperate to keep the marriage hushhush.
with a view to carrying out some
very hush-hush experiments
Адмиралтейство для
проведения неких
весьма секретных
экспериментов!
any of a genus (Colinus)
of quail; especially : a
popular game bird (C.
virginianus) of eastern
and central North
America having mottled
chiefly reddish-brown
plumage
bird species named by
their typical call. about
this bird
1. sudden burst of flame
or light, 2. sudden rush
of water
bob1 1. (1300-1400) Perhaps from bob “to hit,
punch” ((13-19 centuries)), from the sound.
Cyril’s head, bobbing up and
down, swimming to the rock
Сирил плывет к скале,
голова его то
выныривает на
поверхность, то
погружается в море
flash1 (1200-1300) Originally (of liquid) “to strike a
surface”; from the sound
Philip Lombard, summing up the
girl opposite in a mere flash of his
quick moving eyes thought to
himself:
Fuss
anxious behaviour or
activity that is usually
about unimportant
things
make a fuss/kick up a
fuss (about something)
fuss1 (1700-1800) Perhaps from the sound of
someone breathing quickly and excitedly
Everyone made such a fuss over
things nowadays!
Филиппу Ломбард
достаточно было
одного взгляда, чтобы
составить впечатление о
девушке напротив
Нынче все так себя
балуют!
Crow
[countable] a large
shiny black bird with a
loud cry
singular] the loud sound a cock makes
This place, Soldier Island, was
really no distance at all as the
crow flies.
А ведь по прямой до
Негритянского острова –
рукой подать.
Bob
flash
Whack
to hit someone or
something hard
whack
somebody/something
with something
British English spoken to
put something
somewherewhack
something in/on/under
etc something
whack1 (1700-1800) Probably from the sound of
hitting
A whacking fee.
Гонорар просто
неслыханный