单词 | onion-head |
释义 | > as lemmasonion-head onion-head n. ΚΠ 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §445 It may bee tried also, with putting Onion-Seed into an Onion-Head, which thereby (perhaps) will bring forth a larger, and earlier Onion. 1681 S. Colvil Mock Poem ii. 8 There be Onion-heads and Garlick, The food of Turkish Janizaries. 1728 A. Ramsay Last Speech Miser in Poems II. 95 My Pouch produc'd an Ingan Head, To please my Wame. 1809 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. I. iii. i. 121 His head was a perfect sphere, far excelling in magnitude that of the great Pericles (who was thence waggishly called Schenocephalus, or onion head). 1991 Hesperia 90 474 While Perikles commonly may have been dubbed ‘Big Bulb’ or ‘Onion-head’ in Greek comedy, could an analogous reference to his cranial peculiarity have occurred in High Classic visual art? < as lemmas |
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