| 单词 | as bald as a coot |
| 释义 | > as lemmasas bald (bare, black) as a coot b. Proverbial phrases. as bald (bare, black) as a coot; as stupid as a coot (this and the epithet ‘mad coot’ may have originally applied to the Foolish Guillemot). ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > hair > hair of head > [adjective] > having no calloweOE baldc1386 as bald (bare, black) as a coot1430 forehead-bald1530 pilled-pated1542 bald-pate1578 bald-headed1580 bald-pated1606 bald-head1820 baldish1833 tonsured1855 pollard1856 thin on top1869 slap-headed1994 1430 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy ii. xv And yet he was as balde as is a coote. a1536 W. Tyndale Expos. 1 John in Wks. (1849) II. 224 The body..is made as bare as Job, and as bald as a coot. 1624 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy (ed. 2) iii. iii. i. ii. 468 I haue an old grimme sire to my husband, as bald as a cout. 1687 Honour of Taylors v. 9 They poled him as bare as a Coot, by shaving off his Hair. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 272/1 The Proverb, as black as the Coot. < as lemmas |
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