单词 | broad-bosomed |
释义 | > as lemmasbroad-bosomed a. With reference to parts of the body, as in broad-bosomed, broad-eared, broad-footed, etc.Recorded earliest in broad-eyed adj. See also broad-backed adj., broad-bottomed adj., broad-breasted adj., broad-chested adj., broad-faced adj., broad-fronted adj., broad-headed adj., broad-mouthed adj., broad-shouldered adj. Π lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) (Peterborough contin.) anno 1127 Ða huntes wæron swarte & micele & ladlice, & here hundes ealle swarte & bradegede & ladlice. a1425 in W. H. Hulme Middle-Eng. Harrowing of Hell (1907) p. xxv (MED) The horss hath xxv propertes..After a lyon, prowd-herted, brod-brestid..After a woman, mery of chere, brod-buttokyd, and esy to lep on. 1567 G. Turberville tr. G. B. Spagnoli Eglogs viii. f. 73v Brode footed Lads wt shoulders square. 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iii. f. 128 Varro woulde haue them [sc. Bullocks] broade forheaded, great eyed and blacke. 1670 Caveat to Conventiclers 2 These [Van couriers] were grim visaged, Sawcer-ey'd, Broad-ear'd, Cloven-footed, Long-tail'd, Sharp-teeth'd, and all over Hairy. 1771 T. Pennant Synopsis Quadrupeds 12 Sheep... Broad-tailed. Ovis arabica. 1833 M. Scott Tom Cringle in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. May 743/2 Such an ethereal-looking thing..shall one day become an anxious-looking, sharp-featured, pale-faced, loud-tongued, thin-bosomed, broad-hipped wife! 1868 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (Brit. Libr. pre-publ. copy) I. 154 The fruit of the broad-bosomed earth. 1943 J. Kerouac Let. 7 Apr. in Sel. Lett. 1940–56 (1995) 59 I still think that stooge is a piss-complected, broad-assed fartsack. 2016 C. Sánchez-Hernández et al. Bats Colima, Mexico 176/1 Broad-eared free-tailed bats are insectivores. < as lemmas |
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