| 单词 | wind in the head |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswind in the head b. Vain imagination or conceit (with which one is ‘puffed up’: cf. 9); also wind in the head (with allusion to 10). ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > self-esteem > conceit > [noun] opinionc1425 wind1484 vokea1508 conceit1567 self-weening1570 cockishness1573 weening1575 self-conceit1576 self-opinion1593 conceitedness1595 self-conceitednessa1602 self-opinionatedness1668 self-opinionativeness1743 egotism1800 swell-head1845 big-head1850 big-headedness1850 self-opinionedness1879 swollen head1898 swelled-headedness1907 ikeyness1911 1484 W. Caxton tr. Ordre of Chyualry (1926) vii. 109 A knyght that..byleueth in deuynaylles..hath gretter fayth & hope in the wynde of his hede..& the deuynours than in god. 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. HHv Pride..bloweth and fylleth a man or woman full of wynde and vayne glorie. 1591 H. Savile tr. Tacitus Ende of Nero: Fower Bks. Hist. iv. 198 When Mutianus had filled with these windes of hope and desire his empty vainglorious minde. 1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 311 Many..puffe up their owne conceits with nothing els but winde. 1634 Noble Souldier iii. i. E 1 Fellowes which swell bigge with the wind of praise. 1779 J. Brown in R. Mackenzie Life (1918) 146 I hope the Lord has let some of the wind out of you, that I thought was in you when first I knew you. 1918 Blackwood's Mag. Dec. 765/1 He has probably got wind in the head through living in that gorgeous Gothic pagoda. < as lemmas |
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