| 单词 | bully rake |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbully rake a. With the sense ‘that is both a bully and a ——’, as in bully poet, bully rake, bully ranter, etc. Now only in bully boy (see bully boy n. 2).In some examples passing into adjectival use. Cf. bully adj.1 ΚΠ ?1680 Babylon Blazon'd 7 Schoolmen..her Honour justify'd in Words, As bully Jesuits plot to do with Swords. 1683 W. Soames tr. N. Boileau-Despréaux Art of Poetry 36 Affected Wits will nat'urally incline To paint their Figures by their own design: Your Bully Poets, Bully Heroes write. 1710 E. Ward Life Don Quixote i. ii. 33 He Combats like that Bully-Rake, That only fights for Fighting's sake. 1710 J. Swift in J. Swift & R. Steele Tatler No. 238 Those Bully Greeks, who, as the Moderns do, Instead of paying Chair-men, run them thro'. a1716 W. Wycherley Posthumous Wks. (1728) I. 5 The bully scribbler..is beat out of his bravadoes only for assuming them. 1735 S.-Carolina Gaz. 30 Aug. 2/2 Two Hotspurs.., To give the World proof they were right bully ranters, Talk'd big to each other of prowess and fighting. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. iii. iii. 159 Bully-swordsmen, ‘Spadassins’ of that party, go swaggering. < as lemmas |
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