| 单词 | to be battened on |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto be battened on b. To feed gluttonously on, glut oneself; to gloat or revel in. (With indirect passive, to be battened on, in modern writers.) ΘΠ the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > [verb (transitive)] > enter into enjoyment of > enjoy or revel in savoura1400 delighta1425 fain1483 to have, take felicity in or to1542 forage1593 batten1604 taste1605 to take out1609 to have a gust of1658 the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > processes or manners of eating > eat via specific process [verb (transitive)] > eat voraciously forswallowOE gulch?c1225 afretea1350 moucha1350 glop1362 gloup1362 forglut1393 worrya1400 globbec1400 forsling1481 slonk1481 franch1519 gull1530 to eat up1535 to swallow up1535 engorge1541 gulp1542 ramp1542 slosh1548 raven1557 slop1575 yolp1579 devour1586 to throw oneself on1592 paunch1599 tire1599 glut1600 batten1604 frample1606 gobbet1607 to make a (also one's) meal on (also upon)a1616 to make a (also one's) meal of1622 gorge1631 demolish1639 gourmanda1657 guttle1685 to gawp up1728 nyam1790 gamp1805 slummock1808 annihilate1815 gollop1823 punish1825 engulf1829 hog1836 scoff1846 brosier1850 to pack away1855 wolf1861 locust1868 wallop1892 guts1934 murder1935 woof1943 pelicana1953 pig1979 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. iv. 66 Could you on this faire mountaine leaue to feede, And batten on this Moore. View more context for this quotation 1693 W. Robertson Phraseologia Generalis (new ed.) 215 To batten in's own dung, fimo volutari. 1789 J. Wolcot Subj. for Painters in Wks. (1812) II. 210 Dainty mud..In which they had been battening. 1830 Ld. Tennyson Poems 130 Battening upon huge seaworms in his sleep. 1850 E. B. Browning tr. Æschylus Prometheus Bound (rev. ed.) in Poems (new ed.) I. 187 The strong carnivorous eagle, shall..batten deep Upon thy dusky liver. 1879 W. H. Dixon Brit. Cyprus viii. 78 A skeleton battened on by kites and crows. < as lemmas |
| 随便看 |
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。