| 单词 | tory-hunting |
| 释义 | > as lemmasTory-hunting a. With participles, agent nouns, and verbal nouns, forming compounds in which Tory expresses the object of the underlying verb, as in Tory-supporting, Tory-voting (adjectives), Tory-hater, Tory-hunting (nouns), etc. ΚΠ 1651 Perfect Acct. Intelligence Armies & Navy No. 27. 213 Our Armies will have nothing to do but go a Tory-hunting, whereby this County will be established in peace for Travellers to passe. 1770 W. Kenrick Poems (new ed.) 312 Antipathies are fix'd in nature; A whig will be a tory-hater, The coward still must fear the brave, The subject will despise the slave. 1838 Fife Herald 8 Feb. 199/3 We have had lately at the harbour two beautiful launches. One of the vessels was named the ‘Victoria’, the other received the Tory-hating cognomen ‘Fife Herald’. 1905 Ulster Jrnl. Archæol. 11 47 One of the most active Tory hunters in Ulster was Captain William Hamilton, who, in 1682, commanded a troop of dragoons in the Earl of Arran's regiment of horse. 1967 E. A. Nordlinger Working-class Tories 170 On the one hand we have found Tory voting to decrease as income increases, on the other, to increase with greater economic satisfaction. 2000 Independent 20 Dec. (Review section) 3/5 Keeping the formerly Tory-supporting Express newspapers staunchly pro-Government. < as lemmas |
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