| 单词 | frosty face |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfrosty face frosty face adj. and n. colloquial (depreciative) †(a) adj. pockmarked; ugly (obsolete); (b) n. (usually preceded by old) (a name for) †a person with a pockmarked face (obsolete), an old, hoary person, or (now chiefly) an unfriendly or hostile person. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > blemish > [noun] > scar > of plague or smallpox > face frosty face1753 1753 A. Murphy Gray's Inn Jrnl. No. 48. ⁋11 My Friend's Wife damned ugly in a Morning—A frosty Face Devil. 1773 K. O'Hara Golden Pippin i. 19 And you—you frosty-face Dragon! You to keep this bolly-rag on! 1776 J. Leacock Fall Brit. Tyranny iv. iii. 45 What's that you say? Take care, old frosty face. 1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue Frosty face, one pitted with the small pox. 1843 Dublin Jrnl. Temperance 2 397/1 ‘Stay, I'll open it, as this drunken scoundrel is not here,’ grumbled old frosty face. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses 732 The day old frostyface Goodwin called. 2006 B. Owen Trunkies & Fox who loved Icing v. 70 ‘It's that waiter with the miserable face’... ‘Why do you want [to] bother with old frosty face?’ < as lemmas |
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