| 单词 | rule-monger |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrule-monger rule-monger n. ΚΠ 1847 A. De Morgan Arithm. Bks. 75 The newness of plan seems to consist in putting the rules into unintelligible verse, and beating even the older rule-mongers in puzzling plain questions. 1857 J. Hamilton Lessons from Great Biogr. 195 The stinted and external compliance of the rubricist and rule-monger. 2006 E. Brink Save your Own vi. 111 I might have quoted the rule forbidding men to enter Responsibility House, but I did not want to be seen as a petty rule-monger. < as lemmas |
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