单词 | she-wolf |
释义 | > as lemmasshe-wolf she-wolf n. (a) a female wolf; (b) figurative a rapacious, ferocious, or voracious woman (or personification). ΚΠ c1450 Alphabet of Tales (1904) I. 232 (MED) Euer-ilk day, at meate tyme, þer come vnto his yate a sho-wulfe. 1562 T. Phaer tr. Virgil Æneid viii. Z iij b A she wolfe downe was layed, and next her dugs two goodly twins. 1620 Bp. J. Hall Honor Married Clergie ii. xvii. 253 That sowre milke wherewith the Shee-Wolfe of the Seuen-hils feedes the faction of her Romulists and Rhemists. 1787 G. Greive tr. F. J. de Chastellux Trav. N.-Amer. II. 48 They have been observed..to raise their coats and howl at the smell only of two mongrels, engendered by a dog and a she-wolf. 1868 J. S. Northcote Celebrated Sanctuaries of Madonna v. 297 The marriage, doomed to so unhappy an issue, between Edward II. of England, and Isabella, the she-wolf of France. 1936 Discovery Nov. 333/2 A figure of the Roman she-wolf is being erected in Addis Ababa. 2001 N.Y. Mag. 22 Jan. 51/1 The she-wolf has had her moment; even Courtney Love has gotten rid of her combat boots and half her nose. < as lemmas |
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