| 单词 | to stick like a bur |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto stick (cleave, cling, etc.) like a bur b. to stick (cleave, cling, etc.) like a bur. ΘΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > attachment > be or become attached or affixed [verb (intransitive)] > remain attached > adhere cleavec897 to stick (cleave, cling, etc.) like a burc1330 sita1398 clinga1400 clengec1400 engleim?1440 adhere1557 clag1563 clasp1569 clencha1600 clung1601 clam1610 yclingec1620 affix1695 clinch1793 to stick (to one) like wax1809 cleam- c1330 [see sense 1a]. c1530 A. Barclay Egloges ii. sig. Kiij To gyther they cleue more fast than do burres. a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) i. iii. 189 I am a kind of Burre, I shal sticke. View more context for this quotation 1712 J. Arbuthnot John Bull Still in Senses vii. 30 When a Fellow stuck like a Bur, that there was no shaking him off. 1810 G. Crabbe Borough v. 71 Friends who will hang like Burrs upon his Coat. 1865 C. Merivale Hist. Romans under Empire (new ed.) VIII. lxiv. 81 It fastens itself like a burr on the memory. < as lemmas |
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