| 单词 | scabby sheep |
| 释义 | > as lemmasscabby sheep scabby sheep n. see sense 1b. scabby sheep b. Proverbially and allusively (cf. scabbed adj. 1d). Also scabby sheep: a corrupt person, a moral leper. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > corruption > corrupt person or thing > [noun] strumpeta1382 scabby sheep1728 bribable1852 society > morality > moral evil > moral or spiritual degeneration > [noun] > corruption > a morbid moral condition > morally diseased person ulcer1602 scabby sheep1728 1610 A. Cooke Pope Joane 5 Baronius brands him, not meerely for a skabd sheepe, but for an heretical skabby beast. 1728 Earl of Ailesbury Mem. (1890) 176 At the Guildhall, those worthy Aldermen excluded were looked on as scabby sheep. 1861 H. Mayhew London Labour (new ed.) III. 99/1 I was the scabby sheep of the family, and I've been punished for it. 1894 H. Caine Manxman iii. xviii One scabby sheep infects the flock. < as lemmas |
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