| 单词 | to blow the buck's horn |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto blow the buck's horn ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > subfamily Caprinae (goat) > [noun] > male buckc1000 goat buckOE ramgoat1566 buck-goatc1615 puckaun1735 willy-goat1809 billy1849 billy-goat1860 the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > contempt or disesteem [phrase] > expressions of contempt a straw forc1374 to blow the buck's hornc1405 to go whistle1453 fig's enda1616 to do the other thing1628 indeed1834 (in a) pig's eye (also ear, arse)1847 drop dead1934 c1000 Sax. Leechd. I. 348 Firgin buccan þæt ys wudu bucca oððe gat. a1131 Anglo-Saxon Chron. anno 1127 Ða huntes..ridone on swarte hors and on swarte bucces. c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 37 Sume men leden here lif alse get oþer buckes. 1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (1865) I. 265 A peple þat..beeþ i-cloþed in goot bukkes skynnes. c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Miller's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 201 Absolon may blowe the Bukkes horn. 1551 W. Turner Herball (1568) i. 59 What hath a whyte fruite..to do with the lykenes of a bukkes bearde? 1869 C. L. Brace New West xviii. 237 In the fall of 1861, W. Landrum obtained two bucks from a grower in the State of Georgia. < as lemmas |
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