| 单词 | bulldog breed |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbulldog breed b. attributive and quasi-adj., as bulldog breed. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > other types of dog > [adjective] > like a bulldog bulldog1855 bully1884 bulldogged1904 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 588 That bulldog courage which flinches from no danger. 1857 C. Kingsley Two Years Ago II. iv. 67 Knowing him to be of the original British bull-dog breed, which, once stroked against the hair, shows his teeth at you for ever afterwards. 1871 Standard 18 Jan. Can Paris wait even until the bull-dog spirit of this hard-dying chief is able once more to show itself? 1897 F. McGlennon Sons of Sea 4 Sons of the Sea! All British born!..boys of the bull-dog breed Who made old England's name. 1940 ‘G. Orwell’ Inside Whale 40 The typical English boasting, the..‘bulldog breed’..style of talk. < as lemmas |
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