| 单词 | butter-mouth |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbutter-mouth butter-mouth n. †(a) a Dutchman (obsolete); (b) a person who disarms and persuades others through the artful, ingratiating, or disingenuous use of language.In sense (a) with reference to the fact that the Dutch were regarded as prolific eaters of butter (cf. butterbox n. and butterbag n.).First used in quot. a1549 as the humorous first name of a fictitious casuist. [Compare earlier, probably independent, use as a personal name or nickname in Middle English, as Johannem Butermuth (1218), Rob. Buttermouth (1327).] ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > native or inhabitant of the Low Countries > [adjective] > Dutch butter-moutha1549 Dutchkin1576 Hollandish1611 vanden1639 butterbag1645 hogan1651 hogen mogen1653 butter bowzy1719 Batavian1795 Dutchy1862 a1549 A. Borde Fyrst Bk. Introd. Knowl. (1870) 147 I am a Flemyng, what for all that?.. ‘Buttermouth Flemyng’, men doth me call. 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary iii. i. iii.50 Because they [sc. the Netherlanders] feede much on butter, they are called butter mouthes. 1865 Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star 26 Apr. 533/2 The said book, nevertheless, is not to be understood literally, to mean what it says or say what it means, but it must be subjected to the spiritualizing and commentating process of modern priests, such as the Rev. Buttermouth Poundtext. 1896 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Sentinel 1 Nov. He's too gol-dang polite, that feller is; I don't like such butter-mouth chaps. 2004 M. T. Anderson in M. McCafferty Sixteen 282 I held out my hand. I said, ‘Any friend of Pyrrho's is a friend of ours.’ Dipsus sprang back. ‘Don't you try that on Dipsus, butter-mouth!’ < as lemmas |
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