| 释义 |
ˈgreedy-gut(s Now dial. and vulgar.
[See greedy and gut.]
A voracious eater; a glutton, gormandizer.
1550Lever Serm. (Arb.) 63 Disceitful Merchauntes, couetous greedyguttes, and ambicious prollers, whiche canne neuer haue ynough. 1579Tomson Calvin's Serm. Tim. 638/1 Euerie one of vs woulde swimme in pleasures of this worlde, and play the greedie guts without all measure. 1613T. Godwin Rom. Antiq. (1674) 68 A glutton or greedy gut which cannot abstain from his food till grace be said. 1736Ainsworth Lat.-Eng. Dict., Lurco, a glutton, a belly⁓god, a greedygut, a great eater. 1950A. Wilson Such Darling Dodos 210 ‘Greedy guts,’ he said smiling, as she took a second helping of water⁓cress. 1959Elizabethan Apr. 10/1 ‘Here, steady on with the sugar, greedy guts, you've taken it all,’ Friday shouted.
attrib.1647Trapp Marrow Gd. Auth. in Comm. Ep. 606 Such are our greedy-gut Cormorants. |