| 单词 | an image of rye dough |
| 释义 | > as lemmasan image of rye dough † an image of rye dough: used in similative and figurative contexts, referring to an immobile, dumbfounded, or expressionless person. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1600 N. Breton Pasquils Fooles-cap (rev. ed.) sig. B3v As though she were an Image of Rie Dowe. 1651 J. Smith Loves Hero & Leander 22 By that light shee did him know, Standing like image of Rye-dough. 1732 B. Franklin in Pennsylvania Gaz. 12 Sept. 2/1 They [sc. a set of countenances] looked somehow neither glad, nor sorry, nor angry, nor pleas'd, nor indifferent, nor attentive; but, (excuse the Simile) like so many blue wooden Images of Rie Doe. 1879 J. P. Smith Kiss, & be Friends xi. 139 I hearn tell how he gin it to her, and seem to feel as if I should run across that image of rye dough some time or 'nother. < as lemmas |
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