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单词 provender pricks
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provender pricks——
b. transitive. Proverbial phrase. provender pricks——: abundance of food stimulates and creates high spirits in (a person, horse, etc.). Obsolete. [Compare German der Hafer sticht ihn he is in high spirits, lit. ‘oats prick him’ (second half of the 17th cent. or earlier, probably originally with reference to horses).]
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1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue i. xi. sig. Diii When prouander pryckt him a lytle tyne.
1550 R. Crowley Way to Wealth sig. Biiv The paisant knaues be to welthy, prouender pricketh them.
1581 T. Nuce tr. Octavia (new ed.) iv. iv, in T. Newton et al. tr. Seneca 10 Trag. f. 183 Ah, Prouender pricks that vile rebellious race.
1632 R. Brome Northern Lasse v. v. l. 43 Do's your Prouender prick you?
1658 T. Wall God's Revenge 58 Profit pricks forward zeal, as provender does the Ass.
a1688 J. Bunyan Expos. Gen. in Wks. (1861) II. 494/1 When provender pricks us, we are apt to be as the horse or mule, that is without understanding.
1728 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. (ed. 4) Spoken of a horse, or the like, when Provender pricks him.
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