| 单词 | fen tiger |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfen tiger a. A person of fierce, cruel, rapacious, or blood-thirsty disposition; also sometimes, a person of very great activity, strength, or courage. Also spec., a native of the Fens (in full, fen tiger). colloquial. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > savagery > savage person > [noun] wolfa900 liona1225 beastc1225 wild manc1290 tiger?a1513 Turk1536 club-fist1575 scourgemutton1581 wolver1593 vulture1605 savage1609 inhuman1653 brutal1655 Tartar1669 hyena1671 dragoon1712 Huna1744 panther1822 the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > fierceness > [noun] > person or being wolfa900 liona1225 wild manc1290 boar1297 fell1340 tiger?a1513 centaur1565 wolver1593 to speak bandog and Bedlam1600 vulture1605 killbuck1612 man-tigera1652 Tartar1669 hyena1671 dragoon1712 vampire1741 Huna1744 panther1868 the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > British nation > English nation > [noun] > native or inhabitant of England > Fens tiger?a1513 fenman1610 yellowbelly1746 web foot1765 slodger1827 fenner1844 fen-slodger1856 a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 69 The auld kene tegir, with his teith on char, Quhilk in a wait hes lyne for ws so lang. 1581 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xliv. 175 Thou hes Blasphemit our prophet, Preist, and heid; O filthie tegre Babylonical! 1585 Thanksgiving in W. K. Clay Liturg. Services Q. Eliz. (1847) 585 To save her [Queen Elizabeth] from the jaws of the cruel Tigers that then sought to suck her blood. 1649 F. Roberts Clavis Bibliorum (ed. 2) 510 Antiochus Epiphanes that cruellest Tyger and Persecutor of the Church. 1806 ‘C. Caustic’ Democracy Unveiled (ed. 3) I. ii. 77 The blood-thirsty tygers of the French revolution. 1893 S. Baring-Gould Cheap Jack Zita I. ix. 149 I who have lived in the Fens and among the tigers all my days. 1963 ‘C. Marchant’ Fen Tiger ii. 40 The term ‘fen tiger’... Andrew explained it was the name given to a type of fen man, now almost extinct but not quite, for here and there a descendant of the type of man who had lived deep in the trackless, treacherous fenland, and who fought against the land being drained with cunning, craftiness, and even murder, was still to be found. 1971 Country Life 28 Oct. 1128/3 A scattered crowd of rough ‘Fen Tigers’ in corduroy trousers. 1981 S. Marshall Everyman's Bk. Eng. Folk Tales 13 I was..not accorded the welcome I would have expected to be given to a fen-tiger returning home from choice. < as lemmas |
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