| 单词 | fisting cur |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfisting cur That fists: applied as a contemptuous epithet. fisting cur, fisting dog, fisting hound: a small pet dog (cf. foisting hound). ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adjective] > paltry, mean, or contemptible > fussing or small-minded fistinga1535 petty1597 whiffling1613 leguleian1615 fiddle-faddle1617 leguleious1660 pottering1720 poking1748 niggling1827 poky1828 whifflegig1830 niggly1840 pistareen1860 petty-minded1927 a1535 T. More Dialoge of Comfort (1553) iii. xxvii. sig. X.iii A litle fysting curre. 1535 D. Lindsay Satyre 2141 Quhat kynd of woman is thy wyfe?.. Ane fistand flag, a flagartie fuffe. 1546 J. Bale Actes Eng. Votaryes: 1st Pt. f. 49 Where as your fystynge Nonnes were of Antichrist and the deuyll. 1576 A. Fleming tr. J. Caius Of Eng. Dogges 43 This..curre [the Spaniel gentle] (which some frumpingly tearme fysteing hounds) serue in a maner to no good vse. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Vessaille, a fysting; or a crue of fysting slouens or sluts. 1630 J. Taylor Wks. ii. 227/1 No Daintie Ladies fisting-hound. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 186/2 The Puppy, or Fisting-Dog, [is] such as Ladies delight in. < as lemmas |
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