| 单词 | mother-temper |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmother-temper b. With sense ‘inherited or learned from one's mother, native’, as mother dialect, mother-sense, mother speech, mother-temper, etc. Cf. mother tongue n., mother wit n. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > common sense > [noun] witc1175 sensea1382 conscience1449 mother witc1475 common wit1517 common sense1536 philosophy1557 good sense?1562 sconce1567 mother-sense1603 ingenuity1651 bonsense1681 rumgumption1686 nous1706 gumption?1719 rummlegumption1751 savvy1785 horse sense1832 kokum1848 sabe1872 common1899 marbles1902 gump1920 loaf1925 1603 G. Owen Descr. Penbrokshire (1892) iii. 36 For otherwise the Englishe tongue had not ben theire comon and mother speache as it was. 1622 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Phylaster (new ed.) v. 70 Let..your nimble tongs forget your mother Gibberish. 1644 J. Milton Of Educ. 2 He were nothing so much to be esteem'd a learned man, as any..tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only. 1729 W. Law Serious Call xix. 348 As we call our first language our mother-tongue, so we may as justly call our first tempers our mother-tempers. 1851 G. Borrow Lavengro xvii You want two things, brother: mother sense, and gentle Rommany. 1868 W. Barnes Poems Rural Life Pref. My homely poems in our Dorset mother-speech. 1904 J. Wells Life J. H. Wilson vi. 64 A racy and powerful evangelist in his mother-Scotch. 1997 Eng. World-wide 18 2 Ethnic cleansing in former Yugoslavia was largely language-based, i.e. ethnicity was defined by the mother dialect. < as lemmas |
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