| 单词 | dutch-bellied |
| 释义 | > as lemmasDutch-bellied C3. Parasynthetic and adverbial, as Dutch-bellied, Dutch-built, Dutch-buttocked (see note to Compounds 2); Dutch-cut (like yews, etc. in Dutch gardening). ΚΠ 1672 R. Wild Let. Declar. Liberty Conscience 7 Such a Dutch-bellied, blundering, boreal Month as this March. 1676 Rep. French Capers 4 Aug. in A. Marvell Acct. Growth Popery (1678) 59 Whether (as is imputed) all the Ships taken are Dutch built? 1823 T. Moore Fables Holy Alliance ii. 8 Some wished them tall; some thought your dumpy, Dutch-built the true Legitimate. 1868 C. Darwin Variation Animals & Plants II. xii. 8 The farmers continued to select cattle with large hind-quarters, until they made a strain called ‘Dutch-buttocked’. 1893 T. C. Finlayson Ess. 97 Many allow themselves to be ‘Dutch-cut’. < as lemmas |
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