| 单词 | cock-sparrowish |
| 释义 | > as lemmascock-ˈsparrowish cock-ˈsparrowish adj. resembling a male sparrow; spec. (of a man) small or lively (cf. sense 2). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > seed eaters > family Ploceidae > [adjective] > of or resembling the sparrow > resembling the male cock-sparrowish1874 1874 Judy 15 July 124/2 Here Mr. Edmund Leathes has a somewhat cock-sparrowish aspect, owing to an absurd make-up. 1882 M. E. Braddon Mt. Royal III. 66 Little Monty, who had all that cock-sparrowish pluck which small men are wont to possess. 1995 Mail on Sunday (Nexis) 5 Feb. 47 Lady Brown, 48 years younger and a foot taller than the cocksparrowish Sir David,..did not even reply to the invitation. < as lemmas |
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