英语词汇“soft in the head”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

P2. soft in the head and variants: having or showing little wisdom or intelligence; foolish, silly; deranged, mentally disturbed; cf. earlier soft-headed adj.

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1814 Providence (Rhode Island) Patriot 19 Nov. Why are the publishers of the above like a Squash? Because they are soft about the head.

1834 F. Marryat Jacob Faithful II. viii. 179 A good sort of chap enough, but rather soft in the upper-works.

1834 Knickerbocker Sept. 228 One of them, ‘rather soft in the head’, was applied to for goods, by a plausible old fellow, who paid nobody.

1914 Manch. Guardian 3 Sept. 6/1 You can see the German soldiers running about as though they were soft in the head.

1918 S. Ford Torchy & Vee (1919) v. 84 ‘Oh, he's all right, I guess,’ says I. ‘A bit soft above the ears, maybe.’

1984 A. Thomas Intertidal Life (1986) ii. 226 Alice remembered an elderly grandaunt who's gone a bit soft in the head.

2010 G. Carr Badness of Ballydog 70 She hears voices in her head. Thinks animals tell her things. Soft in the head, she is.

单词	soft in the head
释义	> as lemmas soft in the head P2. soft in the head and variants: having or showing little wisdom or intelligence; foolish, silly; deranged, mentally disturbed; cf. earlier soft-headed adj. ΚΠ 1814 Providence (Rhode Island) Patriot 19 Nov. Why are the publishers of the above like a Squash? Because they are soft about the head. 1834 F. Marryat Jacob Faithful II. viii. 179 A good sort of chap enough, but rather soft in the upper-works. 1834 Knickerbocker Sept. 228 One of them, ‘rather soft in the head’, was applied to for goods, by a plausible old fellow, who paid nobody. 1914 Manch. Guardian 3 Sept. 6/1 You can see the German soldiers running about as though they were soft in the head. 1918 S. Ford Torchy & Vee (1919) v. 84 ‘Oh, he's all right, I guess,’ says I. ‘A bit soft above the ears, maybe.’ 1984 A. Thomas Intertidal Life (1986) ii. 226 Alice remembered an elderly grandaunt who's gone a bit soft in the head. 2010 G. Carr Badness of Ballydog 70 She hears voices in her head. Thinks animals tell her things. Soft in the head, she is. extracted from softadj. < as lemmas
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