| 单词 | butter-quean |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbutter-quean ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > ill-naturedness > ill nature in woman or shrewishness > [noun] > shrew scoldc1175 shrewc1386 viragoc1386 scolder1423 common scold1467 wild cat1570 vixen1575 callet1577 termagant1578 (Long) Meg of Westminster1589 butter whore1592 cotquean1593 scrattop1593 scoldsterc1600 butter-quean1613 Xantippea1616 fury1620 Tartar1669 fish-woman1698 cross-patch1699 Whitechapel fortune1734 brimstone1751 randy1762 fish-fag1786 rantipole1790 skellata1810 skimmington1813 targer1822 skellat-bell1827 catamaran1834 nagster1873 yenta1923 1613 T. Jackson Eternall Truth Script. i. ii. §3. viii. 162 This Synode vseth this Apology better beseeming a scolding butter queane then such as should be reuerend Fathers. 1650 H. More Observ. Anthroposophia Theomagica 44 You..bark and scold into the air (that is in general) more cursedly and bitterly then any butter-quean. 1693 T. Rymer Short View Trag. sig. H3v His words flow in abundance; no Butter-Quean can be more lavish. 1752 True Briton 11 Oct. 180 Each scolded, as bad, as a—Butter-Quean Woman. < as lemmas |
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