| 单词 | thin as a rake |
| 释义 | > as lemmas(as) thin (also lean, † rank) as a rake (as) thin (also lean, † rank) as a rake: very thin; skinny. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > slim shape or physique > [adjective] > thin leanc1000 thinc1000 swonga1300 meagrea1398 empty?c1400 (as) thin (also lean, rank) as a rakec1405 macilent?a1425 rawc1425 gauntc1440 to be skin and bone (also bones)c1450 leany?a1475 swampc1480 scarrya1500 pinched1514 extenuate1528 lean-fleshed1535 carrion-lean1542 spare1548 lank1553 carrion1565 brawn-fallen1578 raw-bone1590 scraggeda1591 thin-bellied1591 rake-lean1593 bare-boned1594 forlorn1594 Lented1594 lean-looked1597 shotten herring1598 spiny1598 starved1598 thin-belly1598 raw-boned1600 larbar1603 meagry?1603 fleshless1605 scraggy1611 ballow1612 lank-leana1616 skinnya1616 hagged1616 scraggling1616 carrion-like1620 extenuated1620 thin-gutted1620 haggard1630 scrannel1638 leanisha1645 skeletontal1651 overlean1657 emaciated1665 slank1668 lathy1672 emaciate1676 nithered1691 emacerated1704 lean-looking1713 scranky1735 squinny-gut(s)1742 mauger1756 squinny1784 angular1789 etiolated1791 as thin (also lean) as a rail1795 wiry1808 slink1817 scranny1820 famine-hollowed1822 sharp featured1824 reedy1830 scrawny1833 stringy1833 lean-ribbeda1845 skeletony1852 famine-pinched1856 shelly1866 flesh-fallen1876 thinnish1884 all horn and hide1890 unfurnished1893 bone-thin1899 underweight1899 asthenic1925 skin-and-bony1935 skinny-malinky1940 skeletal1952 pencil-neck1960 c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 288 As leene was his hors as is a rake. a1475 in J. O. Halliwell Early Eng. Misc. (1855) 8 (MED) I waxe as leyne as anny rake. a1525 (c1448) R. Holland Bk. Howlat l. 216 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1925) II. 101 The ravyne..Was dene rurale to reid, rank as a raike. a1529 J. Skelton Phyllyp Sparowe (?1545) sig. C.vi Odyous enui..His bones crake Leane as a rake. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. xi. sig. Z2 As pale and wan as ashes was his looke, His body leane and meagre as a rake, And skin all withered like a dryed rooke. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Maigre Maigres comme pies, as leane as Rakes (we say). 1694 P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 5th Bk. Wks. iv All these sorts of Birds..grow in an instant as fat as Hogs, tho' they came as lean as Rakes. a1732 J. Gay New Song Similes in Poet. Wks. (1784) II. 115 Lean as a rake with sighs and care. 1756 A. Murphy Apprentice (ed. 2) i. 2 We shall have un come home as thin as a Rake—like the young Girl in the City. 1823 E. Moor Suffolk Words (at cited word) ‘Thin as a rake’ is not an infrequent comparison with us. 1866 C. Kingsley Hereward the Wake I. i. 46 He was a tall, bony man,..lean as a rake, with a long hooked nose. 1929 A. W. Wheen tr. E. M. Remarque All Quiet on W. Front i. 3 Where Tjaden puts it all is a mystery, for he is and always will be as thin as a rake. 1995 M. Kesavan Looking through Glass 251 His own life was as frugal as that of the poorest coolie in his congregation; thin as a rake himself, he spent his money feeding others. < as lemmas |
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