| 单词 | to befoul one's own nest |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto befoul one's own nest transitive. To make foul, cover with filth or dirt; often of moral filth; esp. in the proverbial to befoul one's own nest. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirty [verb (transitive)] uncleanseOE horyc1200 befoulc1320 behorewe1340 file1340 flobber1377 smatterc1386 foulc1400 slurryc1440 filtha1450 sowla1450 sollc1480 bawdy1495 squagea1500 arrayc1525 ray1526 bawdc1529 beray1530 filthify1545 belime1555 soss1557 embroyn1566 dirt1570 filthy1581 turpifya1586 dirty1591 muck1618 bedirt1622 bedirty1623 smooch1631 dight1632 fewma1637 snuddle1661 bepaw1684 puddle1698 nasty1707 muddify1739 scavenger1806 mucky1828 squalidize1837 mullock1861 muddy1893 c1320 Cast. Love 1147 Al was his face bi-foulet wt spot. c1430 Syr Gener. 4610 The last he fond Darel Al be~fouled in the grauel. a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Ciii I be foule his pate. 1721 N. Amhurst Terræ-filius 8 Jan. It's an ill Bird that befouls his own Nest. 1844 T. B. Macaulay Earl of Chatham in Ess. (ed. 3) Fox had stumbled in the mire, and had not only been defeated but befouled. < as lemmas |
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