单词 | beaverish |
释义 | beaverishadj. Like a beaver in nature or habit; merely instinctive. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intellect > want of intellect > animal nature of man > [adjective] beastly?c1225 bestiala1398 brutal?1518 brute1535 brutish1555 animal1581 beaverish1850 beaver-like1873 1850 T. Carlyle Latter-day Pamphlets iv. 3 All intellect..will tend to become beaverish. 1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia I. iv. viii. 473 Irrational man-mountains, of the beaverish or beaverish-vulpine sort. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < adj.1850 |
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