| 单词 | he-goat |
| 释义 | > as lemmashe-goat he-goat n. (a) a male goat; (b) an unsavoury, obnoxious man. ΚΠ a1500 in G. Henslow Med. Wks. 14th Cent. (1899) 98 (MED) Take an hee whyt goot, and fed hym iii dayes with Iuy.] 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Dan. viii. A Then came there an hegoate from the west. 1657 G. Thornley tr. Longus Daphnis & Chloe 125 The he-goats..every one had his own wives. 1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 210 A most monstrous..He-goat,..making his Will, as we say, and gasping for Life, and dying indeed of meer old Age. 1821 London Mag. Dec. 598/2 May the devil cork me up in a stone bottle..if I don't carve up that old he-goat into relics! 1851 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Feb. 173/2 These are the thanks I get from the ungrateful old he-goat for having taken some of his people into my service. 1929 N. K. Smith tr. I. Kant Crit. Pure Reason 97 The ludicrous spectacle of one man milking a he-goat and the other holding a sieve underneath. 1999 L. Kennedy All in Mind iv. 76 Next the high priest chose two he goats. < as lemmas |
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