单词 | she-dragon |
释义 | > as lemmasshe-dragon she-dragon n. (a) a female dragon; (b) a fierce or aggressive woman (cf. dragon n.1 6). ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > savagery > savage person > [noun] > female she-dragona1425 the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > fierceness > [noun] > person or being > female tigress1700 she-dragon1753 a1425 Medulla Gram. (Stonyhurst) f. 22v Dracona, a shouȝ dragon. a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 115 Him meit sall in the air ane scho dragoun. 1753 T. Smollett Ferdinand Count Fathom I. xvii. 100 The she-dragon employed by her mother..immediately put on her veil. 1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop i. xxxiv. 288 She-dragons in the business, conducting themselves like professional gentlemen. 1957 E. Dahlberg Sorrows of Priapus Prol. 6 One should wive an unsociable she-dragon, or a sloven who won't sit. 2003 Globe & Mail (Toronto) Apr. 23 c6/3 Sometimes the stereotype was of a she-dragon who ran her male boss's working life. < as lemmas |
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