| 单词 | music-mad |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmusic-mad c. Frequently used as the second element in adverbial noun compounds, as music-mad, poetry-mad, sex-mad, etc. ΚΠ a1750 L. Pilkington Mem. (1754) III. 59 I know you were once Bermudas mad; now I'll give you some of that Country Cheer; open that Drawer and reach me a flat Bottle you'll find there. 1753 J. Armstrong Taste 7 Some have run Maro- and some Milton-mad. 1760 H. Mann Let. 6 Dec. in H. Walpole Corr. (1960) XXI. 462 It is not the famous countess, though she too is still fan-mad, but her sister. 1789 C. Burney Gen. Hist. Music (ed. 2) I. Pref. p. xi A great genius, music-mad. 1802 S. T. Coleridge Let. 16 Nov. (1956) II. 468 The whole Kingdom is getting Ginger-mad. 1825 H. Wilson Mem. I. 41 One of her new admirers, who, being flute-mad, and a beautiful flute player, was always ready. 1847 T. H. Huxley Let. 24 Jan. in L. Huxley Life & Lett. T. H. Huxley (1900) I. 31 Lest you should imagine me scenery mad I will spare you any description. 1851 T. A. Buckley tr. Homer Iliad 249 Accursed Paris..woman-mad, seducer. 1928 R. Macaulay Keeping up Appearances vii. 62 If a woman went on that way about men you'd call her man-mad. 1943 E. M. Almedingen Frossia ii. 58 Look at all this promiscuity... They have all gone sex-mad. 1946 K. Tennant Lost Haven (1947) Prol. 8 All the family were horse-mad. 1974 ‘P. B. Yuill’ Bornless Keeper xiii. 129 Perhaps you can save her from a sex-mad rabbit and win her undying love. 1992 S. Sontag Volcano Lover i. ii. 25 Being volcano-mad was madder than being picture-mad. music-mad music-mad adj. ΚΠ 1789 C. Burney Gen. Hist. Music (ed. 2) I. Pref. p. xi A great genius, music-mad. 1832 J. M. Herbert Let. in C. Darwin Corr. (1985) 15 Apr. I. 223 Cambridge has been Music Mad this spring. 1995 Opera News (Nexis) Oct. 66 The proliferation of record books now available was then just a gleam in some musicmad writer's eye. < as lemmas |
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