| 单词 | to bore stiff |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto bore (scare, etc.) stiff b. In predicative use (cf. rigid adj. 1c): to an extreme degree, as to bore (scare, etc.) stiff. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adjective] > very great or extreme strangec1380 overpassinga1382 passinga1387 most?c1430 extremec1460 horriblea1464 violenta1500 mainc1540 immortal?c1550 exquisite1552 sore1555 three-piled1598 thundering1618 devilish1639 shrewda1643 deadly1660 woundy1681 vast1696 monstrous1711 mortal1716 terrific1743 hell-fired1754 hellish1764 colossal1794 severe1805 awful1818 all-fired1829 terrible1829 quare and1847 ferocious1877 pluperfect1889 raging1889 giddy1896 utter1898 stiff1905 1905 McClure's Mag. May 100/1 He was scared stiff to hear that Morrow was in town. 1918 W. J. Locke Rough Road ix. 107 I think I ought to tell you that you're boring Durdlebury stiff. 1923 R. D. Paine Comrades Rolling Ocean ix. 150 When that crazy fireman broke loose just now, I was scared perfectly stiff. 1928 F. B. Young My Brother Jonathan ii. v. 284 She bores everybody she meets stiff with talking about him. 1933 G. Heyer Why shoot Butler? iii. 47 Anyone can have the super motor boat as far as I'm concerned. Joan, too. She bars it completely, which feeds Brother Basil stiff. 1952 A. Baron With Hope, Farewell 124 It was only a front. He was scared stiff. 1956 English Summer 46 Billy Temple, who announced in Westminster School Hall that ‘the longer poems of Milton bored him stiff’. 1964 I. Murdoch Italian Girl xii. 137 I was scared absolutely stiff of Otto finding out. < as lemmas |
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