| 单词 | dun-chased |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdun-chased With past participles, forming adjectives designating people, esp. penniless writers or scholars, who are persistently harried by creditors or debt collectors, as dun-chased, dun-haunted, etc. Now rare. ΚΠ 1840 G. Darley in Wks. of Beaumont & Fletcher I. Introd. p. xiv As fast as a dun-driven poet. 1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge xv. 13 Dun-haunted students. 1861 G. W. Thornbury Brit. Artists I. v. 128 I would almost sooner be poor, drunken, dun-tormented Sherwin. 1909 Bellman 31 July 906/2 A poverty-stricken school, with its..dun-chased principal. 1955 Spectator 14 Oct. 479/2 A number of well-known writers, are—to put it mildly—not dun-haunted. < as lemmas |
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