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单词 blo
释义

bloadj.

Forms: Also bloe, bloo, blow(e.
Etymology: The midland and southern form of the word still preserved in northern English and Scots as blae , blea < Old Norse blá livid. Blo died out in literary English during the 16th or 17th centuries: for the etymology and senses, see blae adj. and n.
Obsolete.
Blackish blue, livid, leaden-coloured. (In early writers sometimes = blue adj.)
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > blue or blueness > [adjective] > livid
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blue in the face1792
a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 637 Rein-bowe, men cleped, reed and blo.
c1330 (?c1300) Guy of Warwick (Auch.) l. 3413 Tristor he hete wiþ þe berd blowe.
1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. iii. 97 Al to blo [C. iv. 125 blewe] askes.
c1400 (?c1380) Patience l. 221 In bluber of þe blo flod.
c1430 Pol. Rel. & L. Poems (1866) 206 Nowe ligiȝt he ded boþe blok and blo.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 40 Blo erþe, argilla.
a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Fiiii I wax bothe wanne and bloo.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 306/2 Blo, blewe and grene coloured, as ones body is after a drie stroke.
1565 A. Golding tr. Ovid Fyrst Fower Bks. Metamorphosis iii. f. 1 Licking with his blo And blasting toong their sorie woundes.
1652 Ripley's Compend of Alchemy in E. Ashmole Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum 188 The Crowys byll bloe as lede.
1788 W. Marshall Rural Econ. Yorks. II. 69 The blue, blow, or lead-coloured flax.

Derivatives

blo-wipe n. a blow or stroke causing a bruise.
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the world > movement > impact > striking > [noun] > a stroke or blow > specific on a person > causing a bruise
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a1642 R. Callis Reading of Statute of Sewers (1647) iii. 169 If one be presented in a Leet Court for a Blowipe or any other personal wrong.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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