| 单词 | swine head |
| 释义 | > as lemmasswine head swine head n. (also swine's head) now archaic a foolish, unpleasant, self-indulgent, or objectionable person. [Attested earlier as a place name: swines heafdan, Worcestershire (11th cent. in a copy of a charter of the late 10th cent.; now Swinesherd), Suineshefet, Bedfordshire (1086, now Swineshead)] . ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > sensuality > [noun] > animal sensuality > swinish quality or behaviour > swinish person swinec1175 swine headc1405 hog?c1430 hogshead?1518 c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Reeve's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 342 He seyde thou Iohn, thow swyneshed awak. 1543 T. Becon New Yeares Gyfte sig. M.iiiv Who defaceth ye price of Chrystes death..if these fylthy swyne heades do it not? 1698 tr. Bk. Fortune sig. F Your husband is good and perfit, He is a man for your appetite: For when he lieth with you in bed, He lieth not like a Swine head. 1819 J. Keats On C. A. Brown ii He 'sdeigned the swine-head at the wassail-bowl. 1959 T. Caldwell Dear & Glorious Physician xxii. 245 ‘Naturally, as a physician, and a man of nobility and family, you wish to ignore the orders of that swinehead of a captain,’ said Scipio, boiling with wrath. 2013 M. Kremer Torch in Forest vii. 84 She got no better with Lord Edgar, that swine's head. < as lemmas |
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