单词 | creeping jesus |
释义 | > as lemmascreeping Jesus b. Moving timidly or abjectly; acting meanly or servilely; cringing. creeping Jesus, a person who slinks about or hides himself from fear of being ill-treated; an abject, sycophantic, or servile person; one who is hypocritically pious. slang. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > humility > servility > [noun] > servile person clienta1393 snivelard1398 a dog for (also to) the bowc1405 fawnerc1440 snivellerc1450 slave1521 footstool1531 minion1560 footman1567 cringer1582 earthworm1583 yea-sayer1584 croucher1587 creeper1589 sneak-up1598 spaniel1598 sneak-cupa1616 servile1632 puppy dog1651 clientelary1655 lackey1692 groveling1708 prostite1721 prostitute1721 toad-eater1742 groveller1779 cringeling1798 creeping Jesusc1818 toady1826 truckler1827 crawler1847 flunkey1854 doormat1861 dog robber1863 heeler1875 slaveling1884 bootlicker1890 fetch-and-carry1905 poodle1907 yes-woman1927 ass-licker1939 ass-kisser1951 chamcha1966 fart-catcher1971 society > faith > aspects of faith > piety > sanctimoniousness > [noun] > person Pharisee1539 card gospeller1550 lip-gospeller?1556 saint1563 table-gospeller1570 separatist1620 Christera1650 canter1652 high-liver1715 cant1725 pietist1767 devil dodger1791 goody1816 creeping Jesusc1818 Mawworm1825 goody-two-shoes1843 Pecksniff1844 goody-goody1872 goody-good1879 lip-Christian1882 plaster saint1890 holy Willie1916 a1618 W. Raleigh Instr. to Sonne iii, in Remains (1661) 89 Flatterers..are ever base, creeping, cowardly persons. 1706 tr. J. B. Morvan de Bellegarde Refl. upon Ridicule 112 Others of a mean and creeping Soul. 1769 T. Gray Ode at Installation Duke of Grafton 4 Nor Envy base, nor creeping Gain. c1818 W. Blake Everlasting Gospel in Wks. (1927) 137 If he [sc. Christ] had been Antichrist, Creeping Jesus, He'd have done any thing to please us. 1827 Blake Lett. in Wks. (1927) 1138 God keep you and me from the divinity of yes and no too—the yea, nay, creeping Jesus. 1854 H. Miller Schools & Schoolmasters xv. 314 The mean vices,—such as theft, and the grosser and more creeping forms of untruthfulness and dishonesty. 1871 G. P. R. Pulman Rustic Sketches (ed. 3) 88 Creeping-jesus, applied to a person who seeks to hide himself in pursuit of sport or otherwise. ‘Jack crawled āāder the weeld ducks lik' a creeping-jesus.’ 1934 R. Campbell Broken Rec. 56 The Zulus naturally despise the creeping Jesus type who sucks up to them. 1937 ‘G. Orwell’ Road to Wigan Pier x. 194 The outer-suburban creeping Jesus. 1945 A. Huxley Time must have Stop (new ed.) xxiv. 226 That fool who believed in Gaseous Vertebrates, that creeping Jesus who tried to convert people to his own idiocies! 1966 ‘L. Lane’ ABZ of Scouse 23 Creepin' Jesus, applied to a person who enjoys bad health or constant misfortune; somebody who solicits sympathy by wearing an air of patient martyrdom. < as lemmas |
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