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单词 dog-lame
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dog-lame
e. With adjectives, used as an intensifier: thoroughly, utterly; extremely; as dog asleep, dog-drunk, dog-hungry, dog-lame, dog-lean, dog-mad, dog-poor, dog-sick, etc. See also dog cheap adj., dog-tired adj., dog-weary adj.
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1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Dogge leane, squallidus.
1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 914 In deede Cicero was dogge leane, a litle eater.
1599 H. Buttes Dyets Dry Dinner sig. O4 He that saith, he is Dog-sicke, as sicke as a Dog; meaneth a sicke Dog, doubtlesse.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Dormer en transe, to be dog asleepe, to be in a deepe or dead sleepe.
a1625 J. Fletcher Humorous Lieut. i. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Qqq2 v/1 Would I were drunk, dog-drunk, I might not feele this.
1625 J. Davis in S. Purchas Pilgrimes I. iii. 118 Dog hungry and meatlesse.
1647 J. Howell New Vol. of Lett. 94 Some of our Preachmen are grown dogmadd.
1723 A. de la Mottraye Trav. II. iv. 143 He..wou'd run..Dog-mad at the Sound of Musick, especially a Pair of Bag-Pipes.
1738 E. Purefoy Let. 7 Mar. in G. Eland Purefoy Lett. (1931) I. vii. 167 The mare is broke out just above the hoof and she is Dog lame.
1832 W. Scott Jrnl. 16 Jan. (1946) 210 I was dog sick of the whole of it.
1888 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Robbery under Arms I. ix. 113 When she [sc. a mare] was dog-poor and hardly able to drag herself along.
1953 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang (1954) 102 Be hungry. Be bad for feed,—dog-hungry, [etc.].
a1983 ‘R. West’ Sunflower (1986) iii. 113 Maxine..was dog-lazy and never did a stroke if she could put it on somebody else.
1995 ‘Boy George’ & S. Bright Take it like Man xviii. 141 The thought of living with Marilyn made Myra and Andy dog-sick.
2001 P. Magrs All the Rage (2002) viii. 161 In London, people seemed to pay a fortune to live somewhere they thought of as posh and, when you went round, it was dog rough.
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