释义 |
hard-bitten, a. [f. hard adv. + bitten pa. pple. (here used actively: cf. ill-spoken).] Given to hard biting; tough in fight.
1784Sir M. Hunter Jrnl. (1894) 65 So hard-bitten an animal that all the torture you can use will not make him leave his hold. 1815Scott Guy M. liii, They will be hard-bitten terriers will worry Dandie. 1857Hughes Tom Brown ii. viii, Such hard-bitten, wiry, whiskered fellows. |