| 单词 | blue devils |
| 释义 | > as lemmas(the) blue devils 2. figurative. Usually in (the) blue devils. extracted from blue deviln. a. Feelings of depression or melancholy; low spirits, despondency. Frequently personified. Cf. blue adj. 4, blues n. 1. Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > [noun] unlustOE sorrowfulnessa1250 heavinessc1275 elengenessec1320 dullnessc1369 tristourc1380 murknessc1390 tristesse1390 faintness1398 ungladnessa1400 droopingc1400 heavity14.. dejectionc1450 terne?a1513 disconsolation1515 descence1526 marea1529 sadness?1537 dumpishness1548 unblessedness1549 dolorousness1553 ruefulness?1574 dolefulness1586 heartlessness1591 languishment1591 mopishness1598 soul-sickness1603 contristation1605 damp1606 gloominess1607 sableness1607 uncheerfulnessa1617 disconsolateness1624 cheerlessnessa1631 dejectedness1633 droopingness1635 disanimation1637 lowness1639 desponsion1641 disconsolacy1646 despondency1653 dispiritedness1654 chagrin1656 demission1656 jawfall1660 weightedness1660 depression1665 disconsolancy1665 grumness1675 despondence1676 despond1678 disheartenednessa1680 glumness1727 low1727 gloom1744 low-spiritedness1754 blue devils1756 black dog1776 humdudgeon1785 blue devilism1787 dispiritude1797 wishtnessc1800 downheartedness1801 blue-devilage1816 dispiritment1827 downcastness1827 depressiveness1832 dolorosity1835 lugubriosity1840 disconsolance1847 down1856 heavy-heartedness1860 lugubriousness1879 sullenness1885 low key1886 melancholia1896 burn-out1903 mokus1924 downness1927 mopiness1927 deflation1933 wallow1934 1756 W. Toldervy Hist. Two Orphans II. xx. 139 He had greatly habituated himself to sighing, which Richmond called the blue d—l. 1781 F. Burney Early Jrnls. & Lett. (2003) IV. 400 Thinking..that generous Wine will destroy even the blue Devils. 1810 T. Jefferson Let. 5 Mar. in Writings (1830) IV. 144 We have something of the blue devils at times. 1823 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto X xxxviii. 72 Though six days smoothly run, The seventh will bring blue devils or a dun. 1880 Weekly Disp. 8 Feb. 12/2 He got discontented and had fits of blue devils. 1941 T. Williams Let. 27 Feb. (2000) I. 307 Blue devils all this morning. 1992 P. O'Brian Clarissa Oakes (1997) i. 17 As for the blue devils of which you complain, my dear, do not expect too much from my remedies. b. A characteristic hallucination supposedly experienced by a drunken person. Cf. pink elephant n. at pink n.5 and adj.2 Compounds 2c. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > hallucination or hallucinosis fantasticalness1547 hallucination1646 blue devils1798 Corybantiasm1847 Corybantism1882 hallucinosis1905 phoneme1905 parablepsy1934 1798 J. O'Keeffe Man-Milliner i. i, in Dramatic Wks. IV. 324 I cuts with my loss—tumbles into bed with the blue devils dancing on my pillow. 1818 W. Cobbett Year's Resid. U.S.A. i. i. 65 Just the weather to give drunkards the ‘blue devils’. 1830 W. Scott Lett. Demonol. & Witchcraft i. 18 They, by a continued series of intoxication, become subject to what is popularly called the Blue Devils. 1920 Proc. Internat. Conf. Women Physicians 5 20 Take the question of..the alcoholic delirium. One individual will see pink alligators and another individual will see blue devils. ?1959 D. Thomas Beach of Falesá in Compl. Screenplays (1995) 374 And then he drank till he saw blue devils. 1994 P. E. Russell Sea of Tranquility 170 It is, I know, the fine madness of alcohol, its delirium and blue devils. < as lemmas |
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