| 单词 | crooked stick |
| 释义 | > as lemmascrooked stick a. colloquial. With preceding adjective. A person having a specified trait or character; (in early use) spec. a stubborn or inflexible person. Also †crooked stick (Scottish. †thrawn stick): an obstinate, intransigent, or perverse person. Now rare except in old stick n. at old adj. Compounds 5a(b).Originally a figurative use of sense 1a or 3. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > [noun] > as having character or qualities thingc1225 headc1300 vesselc1384 soul1498 sprite?1507 spirit1559 stick1682 character1749 fish1751 hand1756 subject1797 person1807 good1809 specimen1817 a (bad, good, etc.) sortc1869 proposition1894 cookie1913 type1922 city1946 the mind > will > decision > obstinacy or stubbornness > [noun] > perverseness > person frowarda1529 haggard1576 pig-sconcea1640 wronghead1729 crooked stick1848 pig-head1874 thrawn stick1893 1682 N. O. tr. N. Boileau-Despréaux Lutrin ii. 164 That tough stick of Wood, Boirude the Sexton [Fr. du sacristain Boirude]. 1785 Span. Rivals 8 He's a queer stick to make a thivel on. 1848 J. R. Lowell Biglow Papers 1st Ser. ix. 124 So, ez I aint a crooked stick,..I'll go back to my plough. 1893 S. R. Crockett Stickit Minister 30 Tammas Carlyle, thrawn stick as he was. 1897 W. Dyke Craiktrees ii He's nobbit twenty-two—young—a verra young stick. 1976 B. Emecheta Bride Price (1978) iv. 47 I don't know where that dry stick Ezebona is going to get children from. 2004 S. Crabtree Terror from Beyond Middle Eng. xiii. 108 These old sticks you see going into their nineties are just pushing up the average age. < as lemmas |
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