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English Idioms :: soon
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soop.html - See: AS SOON, FOOL AND HIS MONEY ARE SOON PARTED. |
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English Idioms :: sooner
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soop.html - See: HAD RATHER or HAD SOONER, NO SOONER --- THAN. |
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English Idioms :: sooner or later
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soop.html - {adv. phr.} At some unknown time in the future; sometime. * /John will come back sooner or later./ * /Grandpa is very slow about fixing things around the house, but he always does it sooner or later./ Compare: OR OTHER. |
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Traditional English :: sook
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soop.html - n.
Austral. & NZ sl.
1 derog. a timid bashful person; a coward or sissy.
2 a hand-reared calf. [E dial. suck, call-word for a calf] |
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Traditional English :: sool
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soop.html - v.tr. Austral. & NZ sl. 1 (of a dog) attack or worry (an animal). 2 (often foll. by on) urge or goad. sooler n. [var. of 17th-c. (now dial.) sowl seize roughly, of unkn. orig.] |
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Traditional English :: soon
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soop.html - adv. 1 after no long interval of time ( shall soon know the result). 2 relatively early (must you go so soon?). 3 (prec. by how) early (with relative rather than distinctive sense) ( how soon will it be ready?). 4 readily or willingly (in expressing choice or preference: which would you sooner do?; would as soon stay behind). as (or so) soon as (implying a causal or temporal connection) at the moment that; not later than; as early as (came as soon as I heard about it; disappears as soon as it's time to pay). no sooner ... than at the very moment that (we no sooner arrived than the rain stopped). sooner or later at some future time; eventually. soonish adv. [OE sona f. WG] |
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