| 单词 | a shingle short |
| 释义 | > as lemmasa shingle short b. figurative phr. (originally Australian colloquial). a shingle short: ‘a tile loose’: said of one who is mentally deficient. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > mental deficiency > [adjective] witlessc1000 fonda1400 brainless1434 doitedc1450 feeble-minded1534 half-witted1712 fatuous1773 a screw loose1810 losta1822 balmy1851 a shingle short1852 retardate1912 mental1927 subcultural1931 psychological1952 1852 G. C. Mundy Our Antipodes III. i. 17 Let no man having, in colonian phrase, ‘a shingle short’ try this coun[t]ry. 1885 R. C. Praed Head Station II. xviii. 6 I've been given to understand that poets are usually a shingle short. 1957 J. Frame Owls do Cry 26 Francie Withers has a brother who's a shingle short. 1966 P. White Solid Mandala 82 He accepted Arthur his twin brother, who was, as they put it, a shingle short. 1968 Southerly 28 3 Royal said: ‘I reckon we're a shingle short to 'uv ended up on the Parramatta Road.’ < as lemmas |
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