| 单词 | to put on the stranger |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto put on the stranger 6. A person not of one's kin; more fully, stranger in blood. Also, a person unconnected by ties of friendship or the like. †to put on the stranger: to affect a distant manner. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > [noun] > no relation unsibc1175 stranger1535 unkinsman1608 non-relative1848 no relation1883 the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > discourtesy > be discourteous [verb (intransitive)] > not be affable to make oneself strange1390 to make (it) strangec1405 to make (it) strange1598 to wait one's distance1600 to wait one's distance1642 starch1698 prim1721 to cast snowballs1725 to put on the stranger1809 to show the cold shoulder1816 stiffen1864 to play hard to get1929 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms lxviii. 8 I am become a straunger vnto my brethren, and an aleaunt vnto my mothers children. 1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas IV. xii. i. 376 I came up to pay my devotions; but whim..determined her to put on the stranger, and receive my compliments with so discouraging a coldness, as to throw me into some little confusion. 1860 N. Hawthorne Marble Faun I. xxiii. 255 That Miriam—only yesterday her closest friend—had a right to be told..that thenceforth they must be forever strangers. < as lemmas |
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