| 单词 | whore's bird |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswhore's bird whore's bird n. (also whoresbird or wosbird) now archaic and rare the child of a whore; a bastard, an illegitimate child; (also) as a general term of abuse or contempt; cf. bird n. 9. ΚΠ 1546 J. Bale Actes Eng. Votaryes: 1st Pt. f. 18 Neuer were the sonnes of Abraham, Isaac, and Iacob, of Moyses, Eleazar, and Phinees,..so pranked vp with tabernacles and lyghtes, sensynges and massynges, as these whores byrdes. 1673 J. Wade Vinegar & Mustard (1873) 17 Thou was a base whore's bird. 1694 L. Echard tr. Plautus Amphitryon i. i, in tr. Plautus Comedies 9 They'd set some sturdy Whores-bird to..beat out ha'f a dozen o' my Teeth. a1701 C. Sedley tr. D. A. de Brueys & J. Palaprat Grumbler i. vi, in Wks. (1722) II. 156 I will first let you see how I am serv'd by this Whoresbird. 1773 R. Graves Spiritual Quixote I. iv. ix. 234 D—mn you all together, for a pack of whores-birds as you are! 1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days i. ii. 42 ‘Imp'dent old wosbird!’ says he, ‘I'll break the bald head on un.’ 1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles II. xxi. 3 Jack Dollop, a 'hor's-bird of a fellow. 1946 W. Graham Demelza (1977) iii. i. 246 What you got in the choir, eh? Naught but drunkers and whores' birds! < as lemmas |
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