释义 |
ˈbear-like, a. and adv. [f. bear n.1 + like.] Like, or after the manner of, a bear; rough, rude.
1605Shakes. Macb. v. vii. 2, I cannot flye, But Beare-like I must fight the course. 1663Gerbier Counsel D iij a, Some of them Bear-like-whelps (by licking and smoothing) have gotten some fashionable like shape. 1823Scott in Lockhart (1839) VII. 174, I was rather a Bear-like nurse for such a lamb-like charge. |