单词 | wry-mouthed |
释义 | wry-mouthedadj. 1. Having a wry mouth. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > deformity > [adjective] > contorted > mouth or face wry-mouthed1552 wry-faced1607 wry-mouth1652 the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > mouth > [adjective] > types of round-mouthed?1473 shevel?1507 tut-mouthed?a1513 wry-mouthed1552 pouch-mouth1565 plaice-moutha1569 out-lipped1570 pouch-mouthed?a1592 flap-mouthed1594 wide-mouthed1594 plaice-mouthed1595 big-mouthed1602 sparrow-mouthed1611 stretch-moutheda1616 splay-mouthed1647 wry-mouth1652 whale-mouthed1656 out-mouthed1698 spout-mouthed?1711 mickle-mouthed1720 sheveling-gabbit1725 mickle-mouth1863 tenible1871 primped1935 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Wrye mouthed men, miriones. 1604 F. T. Case is Altered sig. C2v There was an old man..bleer-eied, wry-mouthed, botle nosed, lame-legged. 1616 T. Scot Philomythie sig. ¶¶5v They..wrie-mouth'd Plaice..did eate. a1625 J. Fletcher Women Pleas'd iii. ii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Eeeeeev/2 A pack of wry-mouth'd mackrell Ladies. 1653 R. Saunders Physiognomie ii. 152 Looking a squint, wry mouth'd, wry neck'd. 1776 E. M. da Costa Elements Conchol. 210 Buccina Recurvirostra,.. Wry-mouthed Whelks. 1870 D. G. Rossetti Guido Cavalcanti in Poems xxii That wry-mouthed minx. 2. Marked or characterized by contortion of the mouth. Also transferred. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > mouth > [adjective] > grimacing with wry-mouthed1624 mouthing1904 1624 F. Quarles Sions Elegies iii. 21 What flout, what wry~mouth'd scoffe,..Hath scap'd the furie of my Foemans tongue To doe my simple Innocencie wrong? 1635 F. Quarles Emblemes v. v. 262 What soule would not be proud Of wry-mouth'd scornes? 1702 C. Beaumont J. Beaumont's Psyche (new ed.) xiii. ccxxviii. 207 What wry-mouth'd play They us'd, their gentle Savior to flout. 1728 A. Pope Dunciad ii. 125 Instructive work! whose wry-mouth'd portraiture Display'd the fates her confessors endure. 1748 S. Richardson Clarissa VII. lxxviii. 264 Lifting up her rolling eyes,..with a wry-mouthed earnestness. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1552 |
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