单词 | old shrew |
释义 | > as lemmasold shrew old shrew n. ΚΠ a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll.) 665 The olde shrew sir Launcelot smote me downe. ?1507 W. Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen (Rouen) in Poems (1998) I. 44 I dar nought keik to the knaip that the cop fillis, For eldnyng of that ald schrew. 1810 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian iv. 69 A calmness calculated to provoke to madness the furious old shrew. 1932 ‘B. Ross’ Trag. of X ii. i. 146 The old shrew..lifted her bedraggled skirt delicately,..and waddled up a flight of thinly carpeted stairs. 2002 Express (Nexis) 9 Oct. 41 Jill..turned out to be a sharptongued old shrew and idiotic at that. < as lemmas |
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