| 单词 | tb-tested |
| 释义 | > as lemmasT.B.-tested T.B. n. (also t.b.) tuberculosis; T.B.-tested adj., (of an animal) tested to establish the absence of tuberculosis; also (U.S. slang), a confidence trickster (see quot. 1930). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > wasting disease > [noun] > tuberculosis decline1783 tubercle1795 tuberculation1822 tuberculization1823 tubercularization1839 tuberculosis1839 tuberculocele1858 white plague1860 tuberculid1868 tuberculoderma1881 white scourge1895 tubercule1901 white death1901 T.B.1912 the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > defrauder or swindler > [noun] > confidence trickster magsman1822 confidence man1849 con artist1878 con man1889 T.B.1912 payoff man1927 pay-off1928 samfie1929 the world > health and disease > [adjective] > of health: good > free from disease > specific cleanc1384 unpaining1634 unpalsied?a1656 unhypochondriacous1683 unmortified1732 ungangrened1753 uninflameda1793 uncrippleda1800 unbilified1823 unparalysed1888 uncramped1899 T.B.-tested1951 1912 D. Lowrie My Life in Prison iv. 33 He's doin' 35 years an' has the T.B. 1921 A. Mason Flying Bo'sun ii. 19 Their mother died two years ago... The doctor said it was T.B. 1930 J. Lait Big House i. 7 A confidence (or ‘con’) man is a ‘T.B.’, (‘con’ is short and slang for consumption, and ‘T.B.’ is ditto for tuberculosis). 1932 U. Sinclair Candid Reminisc. x. 88 The old captain was ill of TB. 1942 C. Himes in Crisis Oct. 314/1 Men..of all stages of deterioration—drifters and hop-heads and tb's and beggars and bums and bindle-stiffs and big sisters. 1951 J. Cannan And All I Learned x. 180 We've our own cows, T.B. tested and so beautifully kept. 1957 ‘S. Smith’ Not Waving but Drowning 38 I lay with my young bride in my arms, A girl with t.b. 1974 M. Butterworth Man in Sopwith Camel ii. 26 They wouldn't take me 'cos I'd had a touch of TB. < as lemmas |
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