| 单词 | whig-hunting |
| 释义 | > as lemmasWhig-hunting a. With participles, agent nouns, and verbal nouns, forming compounds in which Whig expresses the object of the underlying verb, as in Whig-hating, Whig-loving (adjectives), Whig-hunting (adjective and noun), Whig-hater (noun), etc. ΚΠ 1682 Heraclitus Ridens 25 Apr. 1/1 A Cause confounding, Whig-defeating..Dispensation. 1847 Cork Examiner 16 Aug. I publicly stand pledged to abandon the Repeal, and to become as thoroughly imperialized as any whig-hunting, Tory-hunting, Place-hunting whipper-snapper in existence. 1851 New Hampsh. Statesman 18 Apr. Some super serviceable Whig-hating Loco Focos from the free States. 1858 ‘M. Rochester’ Derby Ministry 47 Obtaining a majority of nearly two to one in a constituency still remarkable as one composed chiefly of the most Whig-loving pot-wallopers in all Somersetshire. 1867 R. H. Moncrieff Martyr Shepherd iv. 103 Can you not give the King's soldiers something to drink his Majesty's health in? 'Tis dry work this Whig hunting. 1885 Bell's Life in London 4 Apr. 3/1 His adhesion to the principles of old-fashioned Conservatism was as questionless and cordial as that of the Whig-hater. 1905 C. S. Terry Pentland Rising 2 The familiar Whig-hunting duty of Claverhouse. 2000 C. M. Snyder Union County, Pennsylvania (rev. ed.) x. 165/2 A Jacksonian Democrat and Whig hater, and a ladies' man. < as lemmas |
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