单词 | slowbelly |
释义 | slowbellyn. Chiefly in plural. An idle glutton; a lazy, indolent, or sluggish person.Now old-fashioned and chiefly used in historical contexts. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > [noun] > sluggishness or heaviness > person sluggard1398 slugc1425 dawa1500 belly huddroun?a1513 slowbelly1526 luggard?1528 heavy arse1530 slugger1539 druggard1569 slowback1577 snaila1593 slugplum1593 druggle1611 dawdlea1764 laggard1808 doldrum1812 dawdler1818 slowcoach1828 lag-last1830 slowpoke1847 morepork1874 slob1876 slow boat to China1919 schlump1941 1526 Bible (Tyndale) Titus i. 12 The Cretayns are..evyll beastes, and slowe belies [1535 Coverdale slowe belies, 1582 Rheims slouthful bellies, 1611 King James slow bellies; L. ventres pigri, Gk. γαστέρες ἀργαί]. 1564 A. Bacon tr. J. Jewel Apol. Churche Eng. sig. N.i. Wil they ouerthrow their owne matter, and giue sentence against them selues, that they must leaue of to be vnlearned Byshoppes, slowbellies [L. ventres pigri], heapers together of benefices, takers vpon them as princes and men of warre? 1607 S. Hieron Discouerie of Hypocrisie 149 The maintenance of a sort of slowbellies, whose seruice to Gods Church was altogether vnprofitable. 1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 170 He derides and tells him he is no slowbelly, to desire to expire lazily on a Bed. 1865 Athenæum 20 May 681/2 They are no longer slow-bellies, for in many places they had eaten up all that could be called food. 1899 R. Kipling Stalky & Co. 27 Such boys,..evil-speakers, liars, slow-bellies—yea, incipient drunkards. 1973 P. O'Brian H.M.S. Surprise v. 93 Jack passed on to the gunners, honest slowbellies for the most part, whom he had found in the usual state of neglect. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1526 |
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