| 单词 | jack-o'-lantern nature |
| 释义 | > as lemmasjack-o'-lantern nature C1. attributive and appositive (in sense 1), as jack-o'-lantern devil, jack-o'-lantern deception, jack-o'-lantern nature, etc. Now rare. ΚΠ 1751 ‘F. Fizz-Puff’ Let. 11 June in Student 2 No. 9. 352 It..is..of a mere Jack-lanthorn nature, neither here nor there. 1817 S. T. Coleridge Biogr. Lit. 293 The characters in this act frisk about, here, there, and everywhere, as teasingly as the Jack o'Lantern lights which mischievous boys..throw with a looking-glass on the faces of their opposite neighbours. 1835 J. P. Kennedy Horse-shoe Robinson III. l. 207 We have some skulking bush-fighters left—some jack-o'-lantern devils, that live in the swamps and feed on frogs and water-snakes. 1908 Relig. Telescope 23 Sept. 3/2 The jack-'o-lantern deception of vain glory. 1949 New Republic 29 Sept. 29/3 As a philosopher he [sc. Walt Whitman] lights our way, sometimes in lightning flashes, sometimes with an intermittent, shifting, jack-o'-lantern glow that might lead us into a swamp. 1951 Landfall (N.Z.) June 103 Then by the Jack-o'-lantern flare Beguiled, that haunts diminished days, Perverse I conjure from the air A partner in the narrow maze. < as lemmas |
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