英语词汇“dunghill craven”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

† dunghill craven n. Obsolete a common domestic fowl, as distinguished from a gamecock bred for fighting (cf. Compounds 1b); (in extended use) a contemptible or cowardly person or thing.Recorded earliest in extended use.

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1587 W. Lightfoot Complaint Eng. sig. F3 The Emperor seeing himselfe so disdainefully ouercrowed by a dunghill crauen [sc. the Pope], could not suppresse his heroicall stomacke.

1711 Ld. Shaftesbury Characteristicks III. Misc. iv. ii. 218 The difference..between the Game-Cock, and the Dunghil-Craven.

1819 A. Balfour Campbell II. xxiv. 124 Next appears an ill-matched pair—a bird of game and a dunghill craven.

1908 Salt Lake Tribune 21 Feb. 4/4 It [sc. a newspaper] is..a dunghill craven whose pretended courage is not sufficient to ooze out a turn-tail ‘Boo!’ to a flying goose.

单词	dunghill craven
释义	> as lemmas dunghill craven † dunghill craven n. Obsolete a common domestic fowl, as distinguished from a gamecock bred for fighting (cf. Compounds 1b); (in extended use) a contemptible or cowardly person or thing.Recorded earliest in extended use. ΚΠ 1587 W. Lightfoot Complaint Eng. sig. F3 The Emperor seeing himselfe so disdainefully ouercrowed by a dunghill crauen [sc. the Pope], could not suppresse his heroicall stomacke. 1711 Ld. Shaftesbury Characteristicks III. Misc. iv. ii. 218 The difference..between the Game-Cock, and the Dunghil-Craven. 1819 A. Balfour Campbell II. xxiv. 124 Next appears an ill-matched pair—a bird of game and a dunghill craven. 1908 Salt Lake Tribune 21 Feb. 4/4 It [sc. a newspaper] is..a dunghill craven whose pretended courage is not sufficient to ooze out a turn-tail ‘Boo!’ to a flying goose. extracted from dunghilln.adj. < as lemmas
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