| 释义 |
hellion, hellyon U.S. colloq.|ˈhɛljən|
[prob. variant of hallion, hallyon, with assimilation to hell n.]
A troublesome or disreputable person; a mischievous child.
1846J. J. Hooper Adv. Simon Suggs i. 18 The ‘oudacious’ little hellions! 1857Jrnl. Discourses V. 135/2 We are going to dig a cache..and put all the whining men and women into it... We want to be released from such poor hellyons. 1896J. C. Harris Sister Jane 136 If dey ever was a hellian he wuz one. 1906‘O. Henry’ Four Million 8 Jawn, did ye ever see a straighter-nosed gang of hellions in the days of your life? 1919H. L. Wilson Ma Pettengill vii. 225 Three children that was known to be hellions. 1941H. G. Wells You can't be too Careful iii. xxii. 218 That vision of Swedenborg's where all the damned and blessed fly of their own accord to the particular places appointed for them, hellions of every sort to their hells and the blessed to their heavens. 1957M. Mezzrow in S. Traill Concerning Jazz 26 Baby Dodds, our drummer in Nice, is a wonderful person, but in his younger days he was a real hellion, and would fight at the drop of a hat. 1973J. Wainwright Pride of Pigs 83 They were young animals..pure, down-to-earth hellions. |