| 单词 | heart-eat |
| 释义 | > as lemmasheart-eat heart-eat v. originally and chiefly English regional (northern) (now rare) transitive to regard (something) enviously, to covet. ΚΠ 1586 in J. Morris Troubles Catholic Forefathers (1877) (modernized text) 3rd Ser. 79 They all so much envy and heart eat the good and relief which they see us have or to be given us, that [etc.]. 1630 R. Brathwait Eng. Gentleman 352 They..cannot see..any thing which likes them, but with a greedy eye they heart-eat it. 1871 E. E. J. McAlpine Doings in Maryland xxxii. 162 Constantly complaining, and hearteating everybody's success, he seemed to view all things in life through a prism of green and yellow jealousy. 1886 H. Cunliffe Gloss. Rochdale-with-Rossendale Words & Phrases Heart-eyt, to envy. 1927 Nineteenth Cent. & After July 105 If one person covets another man's beast—that is, in Lancashire and Yorkshire, to ‘heart-eat’ it—it brings bad luck to the beast. < as lemmas |
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