| 单词 | sheep-witted |
| 释义 | > as lemmassheep-witted b. In parasynthetic formations (and their derivatives), chiefly with reference to the timidity or stupidity of the sheep, as sheep-faced, sheep-headed, sheep-hearted, sheep-spirited, sheep-witted adjs.; also †sheep-hued adj., of the colour of a sheep's fleece. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > white or whiteness > [adjective] > off-white paper-whitec1430 sheep-hued?a1600 natural1854 ecru1869 natural-coloured1909 off-white1931 ?a1600 ( R. Sempill Legend Bischop St. Androis in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xlv. 389 A scheip hewit clock to cover his cleathis. 1623 J. Taylor New Discouery by Sea B 6 b Those simple Sheepe-headed fooles. 1629 J. Ford Lovers Melancholy iii. 43 Sheepe-spirited Boy, although he had not married me, He might haue proferd kindnesse in a corner. 1775 R. B. Sheridan Rivals iii. i A vile sheep-hearted blockhead! 1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xxvii. 234 The most modest, silent, sheep-faced and meek of little men. 1852 C. W. Hoskyns Talpa 44 The extraordinary sheep-sightedness of spade-and-mattock-wielding humanity. 1879 F. W. Robinson Coward Conscience ii. vii General sheepfacedness ensued. 1889 ‘M. Twain’ Connecticut Yankee viii. 102 The sheep-witted earl who could claim long descent from a king's leman. < as lemmas |
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