单词 | cut-air |
释义 | > as lemmascut-air a. With object noun, = ‘that which or he who cuts…’ as cut-air, cut-beard, cut-caper, cut-girdle, cut-nose; cutpurse n., cut-throat n., cutwater n. Π a1661 B. Holyday tr. Juvenal Satyres (1673) 266 A cut-purse..is by Plautus..called..a cut-girdle. 1665 R. Hooke Micrographia 174 The biggest stem of all the wing, and may be properly enough call'd the cut-air. a1678 A. Marvell Britannia & Raleigh in State Poems (1689) 8 And Commons votes shall Cut-Nose Guards disband. a1692 T. Shadwell Volunteers (1693) i. ii. 8 Her sence and breeding is fit for none but a Cut-Caper. 1767 ‘Coriat Junior’ Another Traveller! I. 39 Not one..greasy, lying, tale-bearing..newsmonger cut-beard is to be found. < as lemmas |
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