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单词 to piss one's tallow
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to piss one's tallow (also grease)
P2. transitive to piss one's tallow (also grease) and variants: (of a buck) to lose fat during rutting time. In later use (probably after Shakespeare) also figurative, applied to male lovers. Obsolete.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > family Cervidae (deer) > [verb (intransitive)] > become lean
to piss one's tallow (also grease)1575
c1450 Med. Recipes (BL Add. 33996) in F. Heinrich Mittelengl. Medizinbuch (1896) 232 (MED) Tak talow of an hert, such as he pysseþ by twene two seynt mary dayes, & marow of an hors, melt hem to geder, & put hem vp.]
1575 G. Gascoigne Noble Arte Venerie xvii. 45 Their [sc. the Hinds'] chief meate is the red Mushrome or Todestoole which helpeth well to make them pysse their greace.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) v. v. 14 Who can blame me to pisse my Tallow? View more context for this quotation
1678 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Prov. (ed. 2) 78 He has piss'd his tallow. This is spoken of bucks who grow lean after rutting-time, and may be applied to men.
1694 P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais Wks. (1737) v. xxviii. 132 He's nothing but Skin and Bones; he has piss'd his Tallow.
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