| 单词 | blue bore |
| 释义 | > as lemmasblue bore blue bore n. an opening in the clouds showing the blue sky. Scottish. Also figurative.extracted from boren.1blue bore 3. A tiresome or uncongenial person; one who wearies or worries. blue bore (quot. 1837): in punning allusion to the tavern sign of the Blue Boar. ΘΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [noun] > tedious or dull person grub1653 noddeea1680 insipid1699 rocker1762 bore1812 Dryasdust1819 insipidity1822 prose1844 bagpipe1850 vampire1862 pill1865 jeff1870 terebrant1890 poop1893 stodger1905 club bore1910 nudnik1916 stodge1922 dreary1925 dreep1927 binder1930 drip1932 douchebag1946 drear1958 drag1959 noodge1968 anorak1984 1812 Edinb. Rev. 20 74 A king is in these tribes really regarded as a sort of..bore. 1827 B. Disraeli Vivian Grey III. v. vi. 107 The true bore is that man who thinks the world is only interested in one subject, because he, himself, can only comprehend one. 1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers l. 552 ‘Ungrammatical twaddler, was it, Sir?’..‘Yes, Sir, it was..and blue bore, Sir, if you like that better’. 1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xi. 89 He says the country girls are bores; indeed, I don't think he is far wrong. 1858 O. W. Holmes Autocrat of Breakfast-table i. 7 ‘Madam,..all men are bores, except when we want them.’ < as lemmas |
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