| 单词 | shrewd-tongued |
| 释义 | > as lemmasshrewd-tongued C1. shrewd-eyed, shrewd-headed, †shrewd-hearted, shrewd-looking, shrewd-pated, shrewd-tongued, †shrewd-wit, shrewd-working adjs. ΚΠ c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 449/1 Schrewyd hertyd, pravicors. 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis ii. 25 The priest Calchas was broght by the shrewdwyt Vlisses. 1607 S. Hieron Worth Water of Life in Wks. (1620) I. 197 A shrewd-tongued woman. 1629 J. Ford Lovers Melancholy iv. 58 A shrewd-braine Whorson, there's pith In his vntoward plainenesse. 1629 tr. Herodian Hist. (1635) 199 A notable shrewd-pated Fellow. 1828 E. Bulwer-Lytton Pelham I. xvi. 111 She was a pretty, fair, shrewd looking person. 1856 J. G. Whittier Panorama 9 The shrewd-eyed salesman, garrulous and loud. 1866 C. Kingsley Hereward the Wake I. ix. 216 The..shrewdest-headed..Berserker in the North Seas. 1959 Daily Tel. 20 May 17/1 A smiling, shrewd-eyed woman. < as lemmas |
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