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单词 gnawing
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gnawingn.

/ˈnɔːɪŋ/
Etymology: < gnaw v. + -ing suffix1.
1. The action of gnaw v., in various senses.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [noun] > loss of material > eating away
gnawing1340
fretting1382
gnaw1735
fret1830
the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > processes or manners of eating > [noun] > nibbling or gnawing
gnawing1340
nibblea1525
nibbling1707
morsitation1819
1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 6873 Þe tend payne es gnawyng with-in Of conscience þat bites als vermyn.
a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Isa. xiii. 8 Gnawyngis and sorewis schulen holde Babiloyns.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 200/2 Gnawynge, or fowle bytynge, corrosio.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 279/1 Knavynge, or gnavynge (K., H., P. knawynge), corrosio.
1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Corrosion, a gnawing, biting, or consumyng as rust, plaisters and poyson.
1622 G. de Malynes Consuetudo 336 For this is a biting, nay a verie gnawing to the bones of your Christian brother.
1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued II. iii. 432 The scorchings of unextinguishable flames and gnawings of the never dying worm.
1801 R. Southey Thalaba II. ix. 183 At dawn the Worm Will wake, and this poor flesh must grow to meet The gnawing of his hundred poison-mouths!
1894 H. Caine Manxman iii. xix. 190 He..calmed the gnawings of his love with dreams of ambition.
2. A persistent fretting pain (in the bowels); now only of such pain caused by want of food; plural pangs (of hunger).
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > pain in specific parts > [noun] > in stomach or bowels
womb achea1398
gnawing1398
torsionc1425
colicc1440
frettingc1440
the wormc1500
wringc1500
griping1526
wresting?1543
wringing?1550
bellyache1552
torment1578
colic passion1586
wind-colic1593
belly-thrawe1595
belly-grinding1597
fret1600
gripe1601
wrenching1607
mulligrubsa1625
bellywarka1652
torminaa1655
efferation1684
stomach-ache1763
gastrodynia1804
guts-ache1818
stony colic1822
wame-ill1829
gastralgia1834
tummy ache1926
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) iv. x. 94 Yf the waye is stoppyd that is bytwene the galle and the bowelles, thereof fallyth gnawynge and passio colica.
c1450 Middle Eng. Med. Bk. (Heinrich) 184 Hyt destryeþ gnawyng & wynd in mannes body.
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball ii. xciv. 275 It is singular against the griping torment and knawings or frettings of the belly.
1605 T. Tymme tr. J. Du Chesne Pract. Chymicall & Hermeticall Physicke i. xv. 77 From them [salts] doe arise inward gnawings, impostums,..the hemoroides, and such like.
1847 W. H. Prescott Hist. Conquest Peru II. iv. iv. 161 To appease the gnawings of hunger, they were fain to eat the leather of their saddles and belts.
1876 W. Besant & J. Rice Golden Butterfly I. Prol. i. 1 This pilgrim has tightened his belt to stave off the gnawing at his stomach.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

gnawingadj.

/ˈnɔːɪŋ/
Etymology: < gnaw v. + -ing suffix2.
That gnaws, in senses of the verb.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > processes or manners of eating > [adjective] > nibbling or gnawing
gnawing1567
knabbling1567
nibbling1581
the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [adjective] > by loss of material or wasted > worn > eroded or eaten away > that eats away
fretting1393
gnawing1567
eatingc1602
eroding1612
depascent1651
feeding1750
erosive1830
1567 T. Drant tr. Horace Pistles in tr. Horace Arte of Poetrie sig. Fiiij Greedie thrist and knawinge pyne Of siluer, and of goulde.
1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. H2v Monie wanting, they applie bitter potions, nipping medicines, gnawing corrosiues.
1594 W. Shakespeare Titus Andronicus v. ii. 31 I am Reuenge sent..To ease the gnawing vulture of thy minde. View more context for this quotation
1797 W. Godwin Enquirer ii. ii. 170 It fixes on him an ever gnawing anxiety.
1834 S. Cooper Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) I. 57 What happens in the incisor teeth of the gnawing animals is a still closer analogy.
1842 H. E. Manning Serm. iii. 44 Memory, like a gnawing stream, gathers its tinge from the soil through which it winds its sullen way.

Derivatives

ˈgnawingly adv.
ΚΠ
1841 H. Smith Moneyed Man III. x. 278 A feeling of indignation still lurked gnawingly at my heart.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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