| 释义 |
nodder|ˈnɒdə(r)|
[f. nod v.]
One who nods, in various senses of the verb.
1625in Cosin's Corr. (Surtees) I. 54 You delt bravely with that nodder with his grave head you wrote of. 1653H. More Conject. Cabbal. (1713) p. iii, Which those drowsie Nodders over the Letter of the Scripture have very oscitantly collected. a1680[see noddee]. 1747Gentl. Mag. 59 Even the furr'd nodders on the B—h have benefited by these young Scotch pleaders. 1848Lowell Biglow P. Poems (1890) II. 98 With a congregation of fifty thousand.., and never so much as a nodder, even, among them! |