单词 | man-grown |
释义 | > as lemmasman-grown man-grown adj. now Irish English (northern) ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > adult > [adjective] > adult man manly1579 virile1603 man-growna1641 1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. xvii. 320 Not being a babe or a yoong childe, but being come to yeeres of discretion and a mangrowen.] a1641 J. Smyth Berkeley MSS (1883) I. 168 His owne sonnes now man-growne. 1888 Western Galaxy Mar. 115/1 I remember well that the innocent toad did not live in Mona's Isle until I was man grown, nor then until imported from Scotland. 1907 J. London Road vii. 173 A gay-cat is a new-comer on The Road who is man-grown, or, at least, youth-grown. 1996 C. I. Macafee Conc. Ulster Dict. 216/1 Man-big,..of a boy man-grown, grown up. < as lemmas |
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