| 释义 |
signify
verb
to engage in ritualistic insults, goading and teasing US, 1932
Unlike DOZENS“Looks like a flute, don’t it? But wait’ll you hear the song this little pill sings with it. You play the flute too?” he asked me, signifying to the others, and they all fell out at this funny gag. — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 98, 1946 Mary Jack commenced signifying with some nasty remarks. — Louis Armstrong, Satchmo: My Life in New Orleans, p. 73, 1954 We take him by the neck and say, “Don’t signify with me!” Bad thing, to signify–y’hear me? — Jack Kerouac, On the Road, p. 256, 1957 He looked like one of the real-gone cats with his signifying walk. — Chester Himes, Cotton Comes to Harlem, p. 135, 1965 Now I ain’t signifying, but I never dug you for a punk. — Piri Thomas, Down These Mean Streets, p. 110, 1967 He said sternly, “Grandma, I’m gonna give you a fat mouth if you don’t stop signifying and talking shit to me.” — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Mama Black Widow, p. 298, 1969 Signifying is more humane. Instead of coming down on somebody’s mother, you come down on them. — H. Rap Brown, Die Nigger Die!, p. 27, 1969 He ain’t done nuttin’ but what you niggers sit around and signify, jive and lie about. — Steve Cannon, Groove, Bang, and Jive Around, p. 15, 1969 Signifying: Lying or putting someone down. — Bobby Seale, Seize the Time, p. 409, 1970 |