| 单词 | green and wan |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgreen and wan 3. Of the complexion: having a pale, sickly, or bilious hue, indicative of fear, envy, ill humour, or sickness (also in green and wan, green and pale). Also in extended use. See also green sickness n.With reference to envy, chiefly in green with envy (also jealousy) at Phrases 8, green eye n. at Compounds 1d(a) (yellow being the traditional colour of jealousy). ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > skin > complexion > paleness > [adjective] blatec1000 whiteOE greena1275 blakec1275 bleykea1300 wana1300 palec1330 bleach1340 pale and wan (wan and pale)c1374 colourlessc1380 deadlyc1385 deadc1386 bloodlessc1450 earthlyc1460 ruddylessc1460 wan visaged?a1513 wanny1555 as pale or white as a clout1557 bleak1566 mealy1566 pale-faced1570 ghastly1574 white-faced1577 bleakish1581 pallid1590 whiggish1590 tallow-faced1592 maid-pale1597 lily1600 whey-colour1602 lew1611 roseless1611 Hippocratical1615 cadaverousa1661 Hippocratic1681 smock-faced1684 white-looked1690 livid1728 as white (or pale) as a sheet1752 squalid1753 deathly1791 etiolated1791 light-skinned1802 suety1803 shilpit1813 blanched1828 tallowy1830 suet-faced1834 pasty1836 tallowish1838 whey-faced1847 pasty-faced1848 aghast1850 waxen1853 complexionless1863 light-skin1877 lily-cheeked1877 lardy1879 wan-faced1881 exsanguinous1889 wheatish1950 a1275 in C. Brown Eng. Lyrics 13th Cent. (1932) 35 (MED) His bodi þat wes feir & gent & his neb suo scene Wes bi-spit & al to-rend, His rude wes worþen grene. c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) 470 Al-so he wolde with hem leyke, þat weren for hunger grene and bleike. ?c1335 in W. Heuser Kildare-Gedichte (1904) 102 Wel grene and wan sal be is [sc. þe sone] liȝt, And þat for dred. a1350 in G. L. Brook Harley Lyrics (1968) 63 So muchel y þenke vpon þe þat al y waxe grene. a1425 (?a1350) Gospel of Nicodemus (Galba) (1907) l. 70 Þe iewes..wex all ful gul and grene. c1460 (?c1400) Tale of Beryn l. 2132 (MED) His child I have I-norisshid, and þat is by me seen; ffor my rede colour is turnyd in-to grene. 1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. lxxxiii. [lxxx.] 251 The duke..waxed pale and grene as a lefe. c1550 Clariodus (1830) iii. 203 Lang scho lay with deadlie visage greine. a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) i. vii. 37 Was the hope drunke, Wherein you drest your selfe? Hath it slept since? And wakes it now to looke so greene, and pale, At what it did so freely? c1650 (a1500) Eger & Grime (Percy) (1933) 184 Now thou art both pale and greene. 1701 C. Cibber Love makes Man ii. 20 The wholsomst Food for green Consumptive Minds! 1793 Ladies' Diary 31/1 Green envy rolls her baleful eyes. 1794 W. Blake Nurses Song in Songs of Experience My face turns green and pale. 1887 H. R. Haggard Jess xxxi. 296 The Boers halted and consulted, except Jacobus, who went on, still looking very green. 1920 ‘Sapper’ Bull-dog Drummond ix. 234 Can it be that my little pet is feeling icky-boo? Face going green—slight perspiration—collar tight. 1943 C. Beaton Diary Dec. in Self Portrait with Friends (1979) xiii. 117 And then..his neck and forehead bleeding, his face green, appeared the pilot. ‘Good show,’ the others congratulated him. 1995 Times 10 Jan. 26/6 Having once been the saviour of the construction sector, housebuilding is starting to look a bit green. 2001 R. Nicoll White Male Heart (2002) 243 They spun and she stumbled, her complexion now white and then, on the next turn, green, and he hoped it might be the light from the colour box. < as lemmas |
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