| 单词 | stuffed owl |
| 释义 | > as lemmasstuffed owl stuffed owl n. [ < the title of an anthology, ultimately derived from Wordsworth's Misc. Sonnets iii. xiii] used attributively with reference to poetry which treats trivial or inconsequential subjects in a grandiose manner. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > bad poem or doggerel poem > [adjective] doggerelc1405 album1828 verselessc1873–4 stuffed owl1941 stuffed-owlish1960 1930 W. Lewis & C. Lee (title) The stuffed owl: an anthology of bad verse.] 1941 E. Blunden Thomas Hardy xii. 264 Hardy's poems..have their share of stuffed-owl simplicities. 1957 R. A. Knox On Eng. Transl. 12 I will not entertain you..with choice specimens of really stuffed-owl renderings in this field; such as that famous translation from the Italian, about the medieval story of a woman who was turned into a horse. < as lemmas |
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