单词 | cabbage-looking |
释义 | > as lemmascabbage-looking cabbage-looking adj. resembling a cabbage in appearance; (also in extended use) naive, gullible (frequently in to be not as green as one is cabbage-looking: see green adj. and n.1 Phrases 9). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupidity, dullness of intellect > [adjective] > in appearance fishy1836 pie-faced1891 cabbage-looking1898 tunny-faced1901 the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > weakness of intellect > simplicity, simple-mindedness > [adjective] weak1423 simple-hearted?c1425 good1480 innocent1548 plain-headeda1586 simple1604 green1605 zany1616 soft1621 ungifted1637 softly1652 half-witted1712 simple-minded1749 simpletonic1780 simpletonian1800 sawney1805 simpletonish1819 simply disposed1848 putty-headed1857 cabbage-looking1898 goonish1921 wally1922 1818 Bon Ton Mag. 1 Nov. 43 Level plains, and clumps of cabbage-looking trees, with here and there a country seat naked and unsheltered by a shrub, fatigue the traveller by their uniform sameness. 1898 Westm. Gaz. 3 Nov. 4/1 I said I knew 'ow many beans made 5..and if I wor cabbage-looking I woren't green. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xii. [Cyclops] 299 Gob, he's not as green as he's cabbagelooking. 2001 Jerusalem Post (Nexis) 5 Apr. 11 Kale (that cabbage-looking vegetable that some people think is only for decoration). < as lemmas |
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