单词 | high-shod |
释义 | high-shodadj. Now rare. 1. Wearing high shoes (high shoe n. 1); = high-shoed adj. 1. Also and in earliest use: rustic, boorish (cf. high shoe n. 1b, high-shoon n.). ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > peasant or rustic > [adjective] churlisha1000 ruric1488 rural1513 rusticalc1525 peasant1550 peasantly1569 clownish1570 rustic1576 shepherdly1579 russet1598 clownical1614 clown-likea1640 nut-brown1648 countrified1653 high-shoon1654 Corydonical1656 high-shod1656 sylvatic1661 villatic1671 russet-coated1683 one-gallus1881 one-gallused1887 red-necked1896 rube1898 takhaar1899 backwoodsya1910 swede-bashing1936 backwoodish1946 1656 J. Harrington Common-wealth of Oceana 194 Your high-shod Prerogative, and those same slouching Fellowes your Tribunes. 1673 Banished Priest's Farewell to House of Commons in Poems Affairs State (1963) I. 205 O'er the bacon and bagpudding tell Your fellow high-shod clowns how wond'rous well In Parliament you did yourselves behave. 1775 T. Reid in Ld. Kames Ess. Princ. Morality & Nat. Relig. (ed. 3) ix. 116 To see your Atheist and your high-shod divine contending who should give the blackest representation of human nature. 1841 C. B. Wollaston tr. Persius Satires v. 81 If th' high-shod ploughman should propose to guide, Unskill'd in stars, a vessel thro' the tide [etc.]. 1884 M. Reid Love's Martyr i. 3 Virtue! Bah! It may be found in Parma, making cheese, or 'mong the high-shod Lombards, where the toil of moiling life works out the sin in sweat. 1968 M. Brown Lady in Boomtown 59 Will Towne was handsome in brown khaki and wool shirt, with one high-shod leg resting on a chair. 2. = high-shoed adj. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [adjective] > wearing footwear > wearing shoes > other well-shod1509 pattened1519 pumped1600 soleated1623 high-shoed1649 red-heeled1716 sandalled1802 brogue-shod1812 high-shod1856 high-shoed1868 snow-shoed1896 plimsolled1955 sneakered1961 1856 J. Grant tr. E. Braun Introd. Art-mythol. 35 The delicately arranged chiton falls, over her high-shod feet, upon the ground. 1888 F. A. Mathews His Way & her Will vi. 71 The glimpse of a woman's figure—lithe, supple, graceful, from the golden head to the small, high-shod feet. 1917 R. W. Kaufmann Anc. Quest 34 I have heard the high-shod feet Patter down the crooked street. 1962 X. Herbert Soldiers' Women (2012) i. 6 The tap-tap-tapping of the high-shod human female. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1656 |
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