| 释义 |
stung, ppl. a.|stʌŋ|
Also 3 stungen, 4 stongyn, 7 stung'd.
[See sting v.]
1. Wounded or hurt by a sting. lit. and fig.
c1250Gen. & Ex. 3901 Quat stungen man so saȝ ðor-on, ðat werk him sone al was vn-don. a1400Stockholm Med. MS. ii. 687 in Anglia XVIII. 324 Dragaunce is good To drynkyn for a stongyn man. 1600Surflet Country Farm i. xii. 85 If any rat, spider,..or other venemous beast, by his sting or biting haue caused your flesh to rise..put vpon the stung place the dung of a cow or oxe very hot. 1605Shakes. Lear v. i. 56 Each iealous of the other, as the stung Are of the Adder. 1609Markham Famous Whore (1868) 31 My well stung'd conscience vrg'd me to repent. 1786tr. Beckford's Vathek (1883) 84 The stung eunuch could scarcely preserve the semblance of respect. 1820Byron Mar. Fal. iii. i. 102 When he, their last descendant chief, Stands plotting..With stung plebeians. 1866G. Macdonald Ann. Q. Neighb. v. (1878) 63, I prayed God to keep me from feeling stung and proud.
2. Austral. slang. Drunk. Cf. stunned ppl. a. 2.
1919W. H. Downing Digger Dialects 48 Stung,..drunk. 1952T. A. G. Hungerford Ridge & River 62 The old bloke's stung already, and the pubs aren't even open yet! 1965W. Dick Bunch of Ratbags 219 We had arrived at Doreen's sister's wedding-reception about an hour ago and by now we were all half stung. 1970K. Slessor Bread & Wine 154 To a total abstainer, the line ‘I am stung, stung to the heart of me’ would convey, I suppose, nothing so coarse as the associations which I find in it. |