| 单词 | nodding acquaintance |
| 释义 | > as lemmasnodding acquaintance nodding acquaintance n. (a) a slight acquaintance (with a person or thing); (b) a person with whom one has a slight acquaintance. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > [noun] > state of being acquainted > acquaintance > slight acquaintance bowing acquaintance1807 nodding acquaintance1824 nodding terms1838 1824 T. L. Beddoes Let. 3 Mar. in Wks. (1935) 581 On one point, where he is most vulnerable, you have omitted to place your sting,—I mean his palpable ignorance of the Elizabethans,..with whom he ought to have formed at least a nodding acquaintance. 1886 T. Hardy Mayor of Casterbridge I. xvii. 207 A hint from a nodding acquaintance enlightened her. 1927 W. E. Collinson Contemp. Eng. 107 Most educated people will by now have heard of the Oedipus complex and will have a nodding acquaintance with libido and imago. 1996 F. Chappell Farewell I'm bound to leave You (1997) 179 She never missed out on a chance to give aid and comfort to whoever she could, kinfolk or neighbors or nodding acquaintances or pure rank strangers. < as lemmas |
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