| 单词 | shorter by the head |
| 释义 | > as lemmasshorter by the head a. Of persons: Low in stature: opposed to tall. †shorter by the head: beheaded. short by the knees (nonce-use): said of a person kneeling. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > bodily height > shortness > [adjective] shorta900 littleOE lowa1398 untallc1535 dwarfish1542 shrimpish1549 pygmy1592 shrubby1603 dapper1606 punya1616 runtisha1642 truss1674 sesquipedalian1741 smally1764 petite1766 elfin1796 scram1825 squibbish1826 gnomic1845 dwarf-like1850 knee-high to a grasshopper1851 underhanded1856 nanoid1857 whipping-snapping1861 scrunty1868 midget1875 short-set1883 sawed-off1887 strunty1897 munchkin1930 sawn-off1936 short-arsed1951 society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > [adjective] > beheaded shorter by the head1548 a900 Wærferth tr. Gregory's Dial. 46 Swa sceort man & swa unfæger on ansyne. 1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 8532 Vor he was somdel ssort he clupede him courtehese. c1386 G. Chaucer Wife of Bath's Prol. 624 I..euere folwed myn appetit Al were he short or long or blak or whit. 1483 Cath. Angl. 337/2 Schorthe, argutus, vt corporis arguti surgit pigmeus. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry IV f. xiiij The Duke of Exceter..was..there made shorter by the hed. 1713 N. Rowe Jane Shore i. i. 5 Her brother Rivers Ere this lies shorter by the head at Pomfret. 1746 P. Francis tr. Horace in P. Francis & W. Dunkin tr. Horace Epistles i. xii. 38 Short by the Knees [L. genibus minor] the haughty Parthian kneels. 1891 F. W. Farrar Darkness & Dawn II. xliii. 96 A man..somewhat short of stature. < as lemmas |
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