| 释义 |
† elˈbowic, a. humorous. Obs.
In Dicts. elboic(k.
[f. elbow n. + -ic.]
(See quot.)
1654Gayton Fest. Notes i. iii, Verses, which being above Hexameters, full sometimes, and sometimes over-makes, that rather sounding verse, we call Elbowick. 1727Bailey II, Elboick, a sentence or verse of a rude or ruffling quality, as it were hunching or pushing with the elbow. 1734Littleton Lat. Dict., Elboick verse, carmen hypermetrum or redundans. 1775in Ash. |