| 单词 | cockle-brained |
| 释义 | > as lemmascockle-brained Originally Scottish. Forming adjectives with the sense ‘that has a muddled or crazy ——’, by combining with a noun + -ed, as cockle-brained, cockle-headed, etc. ΚΠ 1817 W. Scott Rob Roy II. viii. 158 He's crack-brained and cockle-headed about his nipperty-tipperty poetry nonsense. 1823 W. Scott St. Ronan's Well I. i. 24 Thae cockle-brained callants of the present day that would be mair owerta'en with a puir quart than douce folks were with a magnum. 1830 J. Galt Southennan I. xvii. 132 Madame La Mode, the old Queen's millinder, a cockletopt French leddy,..was soon after sent out o' the kingdom. 1932 R. S. Allen More Merry-go-round x. 364 Colorless, drab, innocuous, cockle-headed, silly and puerile though they may be, each, after his own fashion, has his own peculiar characteristics. 1970 G. Heyer Charity Girl xiv. 232 Lord, what a cockle-headed thing to do! 2005 C. Paolini Eldest (2007) 197 A bunch of inbred, cockle-brained woodrats that can't tell a pike from a poleax. < as lemmas |
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