| 单词 | land fever |
| 释义 | > as lemmasland fever land fever n. North American eager desire for, or excitement about, securing land (cf. gold fever n. at gold n.1 and adj. Compounds 1e). ΘΚΠ the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > desire for specific things > [noun] > for land yird-hunger1729 earth hunger1822 land fever1839 land-hunger1862 1839 Daily Picayune (New Orleans) 23 Apr. 2/2 Then came the land fever, which swept over the country like a pestilence. 1840 Knickerbocker Mag. 16 205 (heading) Recollections of the Land-Fever. 1845 C. M. Kirkland Western Clearings 4 In the days of the land-fever. 1900 E. B. Osborn Greater Canada 60 Many years passed before the North-West recovered from the commercial lethargy which followed this attack of land-fever. 1946 E. Hodgins Mr. Blandings builds his Dream House 16 Then, suddenly the land fever seized them. 1972 J. M. Minifie Homesteader vi. 40 Many of the harvesters were bitten by the land fever, and filed on land for themselves once the harvest was over. < as lemmas |
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