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单词 creeping jesus
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creeping 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.
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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.
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