单词 | hell-kite |
释义 | > as lemmashell-kite hell-kite n. now rare a cruel or loathsome person or thing. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > hellishness > [noun] > person hellhoundc1340 hell-kitea1616 the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > ill-treatment > cruelty > [noun] > person wolfa900 cruelc1420 Turk1536 scourgemutton1581 savage1609 hell-kitea1616 a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) iv. iii. 218 All my pretty ones?.. Oh Hell-Kite! All? What, All my pretty Chickens? View more context for this quotation 1770 T. Lyttelton Poems (1780) 49 Avaunt! thou hell-kite! 1849 G. P. R. James Woodman I. viii. 156 There is no knowing what such hell kites may do. 1907 Washington Post 2 June 6/3 Do you dare intimate, you hell-kite, that I know aught of this? 2010 J. Givens in Plum Rains 207 I can kill anything with it I can see, said the Hell-kite. He lifted the matchlock out of its case. < as lemmas |
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