| 单词 | go-by- -ground |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgo-by-(the)-ground go-by-(the)-ground n. and adj. now rare (a) n. something that creeps along the ground; (frequently derogatory) a creeping, cringing person; (also) a small person or thing; (b) adj. cringing, creeping; small, low. [Attested earlier as a surname: Radulfus Gobithegrund (1238), Julian' Gobegrund (1296).] ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > humility > servility > [adjective] go-by-ground?a1300 thrall1398 abjectc1430 manly?c1430 servicious1440 serviceable1483 servile1537 tame1563 slavish1565 demiss1572 submissive1572 cringing1579 fawning1585 incrouching?1593 vassal1594 scraping1599 obsequious1602 spaniel1606 observing1609 deprostrate1610 supplea1616 vernile1623 shrugging1629 wormy1640 compliable1641 thrall-like1641 obeisant1642 inservient1646 truckling1656 cringeling1693 benecking1705 subservient1714 footman-like1776 bingeing1805 sidling1821 toadying1863 crawlsome1904 toadyish1909 crawling1941 ass-kissing1942 the world > movement > progressive motion > moving along with hands and feet or with body prone > [adjective] > creeping or crawling creepingc1000 go-by-ground?a1300 crawlinga1400 rampinga1500 reptile1607 humiserpent1641 reptant1670 reptitious1742 acrawl1834 the world > life > the body > bodily height > shortness > [noun] > person dwarfeOE congeonc1230 go-by-ground?a1300 smalla1300 shrimpc1386 griga1400 gruba1400 murche1440 nirvil1440 mitinga1450 witherling1528 wretchocka1529 elf1530 hop-o'-my-thumb1530 pygmy1533 little person1538 manikin1540 mankin1552 dandiprat1556 yrle1568 grundy1570 Jack Sprat1570 squall1570 manling1573 Tom Thumb1579 pinka1585 squib1586 screaling1594 giant-dwarf1598 twattle1598 agate1600 minimus1600 cock sparrow1602 dapperling1611 modicum1611 scrub1611 sesquipedalian1615 dwarflinga1618 wretchcock1641 homuncio1643 whip-handle1653 homuncule1656 whippersnapper1674 chitterling1675 sprite1684 carliea1689 urling1691 wirling1691 dwarf man1699 poppet1699 durgan1706 short-arse1706 tomtit1706 Lilliputian1726 wallydraigle1736 midge1757 minikin1761 squeeze-crab1785 minimum1796 niff-naff1808 titman1818 teetotum1822 squita1825 cradden1825 nyaff1825 weed1825 pinkeen1850 fingerling1864 Lilliput1867 thumbling1867 midget1869 inch1884 shorty1888 titch1888 skimpling1890 stub1890 scrap1898 pygmoid1922 lofty1933 peewee1935 smidgen1952 pint-size1954 pint-sized1973 munchkin1974 society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > carriage for conveying persons > [noun] > types of carriage > low carriage go-by-ground?a1300 ?a1300 Names Hare (Digby 86) in Proc. Leeds Philos. & Lit. Soc. (1935) 6 350 He shal saien..in þe worshipe of þe hare..‘Þe gobigrounde, þe sittestille, þe pintail.’ 1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 384 b Creeping yet lyke a seely goebyground. 1595 A. Copley Wits Fittes & Fancies 202 Indeed sir..I had need haue two eyes, to discerne so pettie a goe by ground as you. 1657 J. D. in J. Poole Eng. Parnassus sig. E4 Swathed, cradled, go-by-ground, soon-pleased. 1659 J. Gauden Ἱερα Δακρυα iv. xvii. 521 Would any thing..be more..despicable in the eyes of the people..than..such Go-by-ground Governours. 1696 P. A. Motteux Love's a Jest v. 73 A tidy Skip, a little tiny go-by-ground, not passin [sic] thus high. 1781 C. Dibdin Marriage Act ii. 36 What!—Is this the little ugly draggle-tail'd go-by-the-ground, that has been taken for me? 1797 M. Robinson Walsingham III. 176 A go-by-the-ground, with two wheels, just for all the world like a cart. 1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas II. iv. ix. 184 He was a little go-by-the-ground, scarcely up to my shoulders. 1873 Peep through Home-Rule Spectacles 26 The inconvenience and expense of this state of things..have attracted the observations of Ireland's only legal periodical, the moderate, go-by-the-ground Solicitors' Journal. 1959 E. Phillpotts There was Old Man ii. 19 Merle herself was a little go-by-the-ground creature quite as pretty as Rosa, but not so pushing and showy and ambitious and clever as her. < as lemmas |
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