单词 | mauvais coucheur |
释义 | mauvais coucheurn. A difficult, uncooperative, or unsociable person. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > discourtesy > [noun] > lack of affability > person stick1801 poker1812 mauvais coucheur1857 partan1896 chip1929 peckerhead1945 1857 Dublin Univ. Mag. Mar. 275/1 As to Upton—he's well known throughout Europe—a ‘mauvais coucheur!’ Stubber: that's what the Emperor Franz called him—a ‘mauvais coucheur’, one of those fellows England employs to get up the embarrassments she so deeply deplores. 1870 Ld. Granville Let. 29 June in Polit. Corr. Gladstone & Granville 1868–1876 (1952) I. 102 From his account Otway is mauvais coucheur, jealous & perfectly incapable but he begs not to be quoted. 1915 H. H. Asquith Let. 18 Feb. in M. Gilbert Winston S. Churchill Compan. (1972) III. i. 521 The French & the Russians are both rather mauvais coucheurs. 1959 Times 19 Nov. 15/2 Brecht at best was a mauvais coucheur. 1963 Times Lit. Suppl. 26 Apr. 297/3 Goddard was a man of talent but he was obviously a mauvais coucheur. 1997 Astronomy (Nexis) Dec. 42 His personal manner was less attractive than his features. One colleague described him [sc. Le Verrier] as a mauvais coucheur (a bad bedfellow). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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