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单词 tough-looking
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tough-looking
11. In combination (chiefly parasynthetic) with other adjectives, as tough-backed, tough-hided (in quots. figurative), tough-looking, tough-metalled, tough-necked, tough-shelled, tough-skinned, tough-strung.
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1637 J. Fletcher & P. Massinger Elder Brother v. i. sig. I3v A true tough metal'd blade.
1682 N. O. tr. N. Boileau-Despréaux Lutrin ii. 14 A tough-back't Knave.
1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature (1834) I. 644 Their solid bones, their tough-strung muscles, their strong-bounding blood.
1825 S. T. Coleridge Let. to J. Gillman in Lett. (1895) 743 Nature is..tough-lived as a turtle.
1826 M. R. Mitford Our Village II. 132 A tall, spare, tough-looking woman, with a long bony face.
1872 R. Browning Fifine xxxi Unsensitive, tough-thonged In lieu of our fine nerve.
1925 D. H. Lawrence St. Mawr 158 She felt a peculiar tough-necked arrogance in him.
1930 R. Lehmann Note in Music vi. 249 It would take a good deal..to harm a tough-hided old hippopotamus like Uncle Tom.
1933 C. S. Lewis Pilgrim's Regress vii. v. 146 I always think it is possible for a place to be too bracing. They call it the land of the tough-minded—tough-skinned would be a better name.
1964 Listener 30 Apr. 731/3 A tough-hided, soft-centred, north-country, working-class dramatist.
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