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单词 skin and grief
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skin and grief
b. skin and grief: emaciated; weak and starving. Frequently attributive. Also as n.: an emaciated or starving person (rare).
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1779 J. Warner in J. H. Jesse G. Selwyn & his Contemp. (1844) IV. 30 Such a number of pinch-bellied, woebegone, skin-and-grief, lanthorn-jawed, soup-maigre subjects.
?1837 E. Stirling Pickwick Club iii. vi. 50 What's your name, young skin and grief?
1856 E. L. C. Follen Old Garret II. 79 Perhaps it is your fault that poor Scrimp is nothing but skin and grief.
1887 T. Hardy Woodlanders I. xii. 226 He was almost well, but is much worse again; a man all skin and grief he ever were.
a1903 H. Latham in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1903) IV. 121/1 [Yorkshire] Ay, poor little minnit, he's all skin an' grief.
1912 D. H. Lawrence Let. 24 Dec. (1962) I. 172 They want me to have form: that means, they want me to have their pernicious ossiferous skin-and-grief form, and I won't.
1912 P. C. Wren Dew & Mildew xxv. 420 We had a chap at school called ‘Skin-and-Grief’.
1983 R. Brown Voy. of Iceberg 110 Their weight is down to fifty pounds and a pup that's all skin and grief is no use to anyone.
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