| 单词 | paper-moth |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspaper-moth paper-moth n. now rare a moth whose larvae eat paper; (figurative) a person who spends most of the time reading and writing, a bookworm. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > unspecified and miscellaneous types > unspecified paper-moth1699 arch1766 moth1802 nun1832 runic1832 vulture-feather1832 wormwood1832 buff-tip1836 1699 G. Farquhar Love & Bottle iii. i. 28 Are my Cloathes so course, as if they were spun by those lazy Spinsters the Muses..? Do my hands look like Paper moths? 1845 Amer. Whig Rev. Mar. 264/2 It [sc. ornithology] fell almost exclusively into the hands of dry old paper-moths, whose dull fatiguing compilations only tended to stultify more profoundly the inanities of their predecessors. 1904 N.E.D. at Paper sb. Paper-moth,..one who is constantly occupied with paper. < as lemmas |
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