| 单词 | sex-mad |
| 释义 | > as lemmassex-mad c. Frequently used as the second element in adverbial noun compounds, as music-mad, poetry-mad, sex-mad, etc. ΚΠ a1750 L. Pilkington Mem. (1754) III. 59 I know you were once Bermudas mad; now I'll give you some of that Country Cheer; open that Drawer and reach me a flat Bottle you'll find there. 1753 J. Armstrong Taste 7 Some have run Maro- and some Milton-mad. 1760 H. Mann Let. 6 Dec. in H. Walpole Corr. (1960) XXI. 462 It is not the famous countess, though she too is still fan-mad, but her sister. 1789 C. Burney Gen. Hist. Music (ed. 2) I. Pref. p. xi A great genius, music-mad. 1802 S. T. Coleridge Let. 16 Nov. (1956) II. 468 The whole Kingdom is getting Ginger-mad. 1825 H. Wilson Mem. I. 41 One of her new admirers, who, being flute-mad, and a beautiful flute player, was always ready. 1847 T. H. Huxley Let. 24 Jan. in L. Huxley Life & Lett. T. H. Huxley (1900) I. 31 Lest you should imagine me scenery mad I will spare you any description. 1851 T. A. Buckley tr. Homer Iliad 249 Accursed Paris..woman-mad, seducer. 1928 R. Macaulay Keeping up Appearances vii. 62 If a woman went on that way about men you'd call her man-mad. 1943 E. M. Almedingen Frossia ii. 58 Look at all this promiscuity... They have all gone sex-mad. 1946 K. Tennant Lost Haven (1947) Prol. 8 All the family were horse-mad. 1974 ‘P. B. Yuill’ Bornless Keeper xiii. 129 Perhaps you can save her from a sex-mad rabbit and win her undying love. 1992 S. Sontag Volcano Lover i. ii. 25 Being volcano-mad was madder than being picture-mad. sex-mad sex-mad adj. ΚΠ 1895 Morning Oregonian (Portland, Oregon) 13 Jan. 11/4 It has been said that the modern school of French novelists is sex mad. 1943 E. M. Almedingen Frossia ii. 58 Look at all this promiscuity... They have all gone sex-mad. 2001 Sun 27 Jan. 6/1 A sex-mad monk who groped four women in the Confessional Room..was yesterday jailed for six years. < as lemmas |
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