单词 | rosy gills |
释义 | > as lemmasrosy gills rosy gills n. colloquial (originally cant) (rare) redness of the face, a red-coloured face; (hence) a red-faced person; cf. rosy-gilled adj. at Compounds 1d. ΚΠ 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Rosy-gills, sanguine or fresh-colour'd. 1820 C. Lamb in London Mag. Dec. 623/1 What a careless even deportment hath your borrower! what rosy gills! 1915 G. Bronson-Howard God's Man ii. i. 104 The head of one of the rosy-gills struck a brass-bound table corner as he staggered back from the first blow of the fighting L'Hommedieu. < as lemmas |
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