单词 | quaint-spoken |
释义 | > as lemmasquaint-spoken With adjectives and participles, as quaint-carved, †quaint-eyed, †quaint-felt, quaint-looking, quaint-mouthed, quaint-shaped, quaint-sounding, quaint-spoken, quaint-stomached, quaint-tempered, †quaint-witty, quaint-worded, etc., adjectives. Now rare. ΚΠ a1425 Medulla Gram. (Stonyhurst) f. 61 Sophionicus, queynt tempred. c1450 Cato's Distichs (Sidney Sussex) l. 364 in Englische Studien (1906) 36 32 (MED) Flatereng men, subtile and sle, And queinte-ispoken I prei þe fle. 1575 G. Harvey Let.-bk. (1884) 91 Thou arte so queyntefelt In thy rondelett. 1598 J. Marston Certaine Satyres in Metamorph. Pigmalions Image 34 Like no quaint stomack't man [he] Eates vp his armes. 1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. i. xxxvi. 115 A quaint-wittie, and loftie conceit. 1744 M. Akenside Pleasures Imagination iii. 250 Where'er the pow'r of ridicule displays Her quaint-ey'd visage. 1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 2nd Ser. 178 An old quaint-looking apartment, with sunken windows, and black carved wainscotting. 1838 J. R. Lowell Class Poem ix. 11 What quaint-mouthed sentences! and how profound! 1853 G. P. R. James Agnes Sorel I. i. 7 The tall, quaint-shaped window. 1859 J. G. Whittier On Prayer Bk. in Independent (N.Y.) 15 Sept. 1/1 The quaint-carved, Gothic door. 1863 A. B. Grosart Small Sins (ed. 2) 17 Their quaint-worded dispositions and distinctions. 1912 ‘Saki’ Unbearable Bassington i. 12 That comfortable quaint-shaped room of angles and bays and alcoves. 1922 R. Leighton Compl. Bk. Dog xii. 178 Most people are well acquainted with the personal appearance of this quaint-looking dog. 1957 A. N. Prior Time & Modality 55 ‘The True’ and ‘The False’ are certainly quaint-sounding objects to be named by phrases like ‘The conquest of Gaul by Caesar’. 2006 S. Wales Evening Post (Nexis) 8 Sept. 2 The quaint-looking pub had a couple sitting out on the balcony, basking in the sun and enjoying a quiet pint. < as lemmas |
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