| 单词 | prick-eared knave |
| 释义 | > as lemmasprick-eared knave 2. †(a) Of a person: with ears made prominent as a result of the hair being short and close-cropped (this being a style favoured by Puritan supporters of Parliament in the English Civil War). Obsolete. (b) Puritanical, priggish. Also in more general derogatory use (esp. as prick-eared knave). Now archaic and rare. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > Protestantism > Puritanism > [adjective] precise1560 Puritant1580 puritan1588 disciplinarian1591 disciplinary1591 pure1598 puritanical1598 puritanian1601 puritanic1606 kneeless1631 prick-eared1641 precisianicala1652 Catharistic1838 perfectionistic1884 hot-gospelling1891 Patarene1902 wowserish1933 the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > ear > [adjective] > types of ear > having crop-eared1530 slouch-eared1556 well-hung1611 round-eared1615 prick-eared1641 nick-eared1834 tip-eared1880 thick-lugged1922 the world > action or operation > behaviour > affected behaviour or affectation > [adjective] > affectedly proper moy1487 strait-laced1554 mima1586 prim1702 prick-eared1707 prudish1717 priggish1731 primsy1786 trig1793 missish1795 missy1805 pershittie1808 missyish1818 missy-like1831 primmy1857 pruney and prismatic (or prismy)1857 antiseptic1891 blue-nosed1893 prissy1894 Nice Nelly1922 prissified1923 prunes and prismy1931 1641 in J. Rushworth Hist. Coll.: Third Pt. (1692) I. 482 The said Captain Hide said,..that they were a company of prick eared and cropt eared Rascals, and that he would believe a Papist before a Puritan. 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Prickear'd Fellow, a Crop, whose Ears are longer than his Hair. 1707 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. 21 Nov. (1886) II. 74 These Prickear'd, starch, sanctify'd Fellows. 1752 S. Foote Taste ii. 25 I adore the Simplicity of the Antients! How unlike the present, priggish, prick-eard Puppies! 1819 W. Scott Legend of Montrose viii. 108 I have not a little interest both to make these godly dames renew their patriotic gift, and the prick-eared knaves, their husbands, open their purses. 1860 Littell's Living Age 24 Mar. 743/1 He'd better not come home drunk as he did the last time, a prick-eared knave! 1872 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch I. ii. xvi. 283 Fred Vincy had called Lydgate a prig, and now Mr Chichely was inclined to call him prick-eared. 1937 Mississippi Valley Hist. Rev. 24 39 The prick-eared knaves should, therefore, ‘be made to feel Southern steel and smell Southern powder’. < as lemmas |
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