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单词 belly-flaught
释义 ˈbelly-flaught, a. Sc.
[f. belly n. + flaught, ‘in full flight’ (Jam.).]
1. Headlong; precipitate.
c1375? Barbour St. Barthol. 316 And bely-flawcht flede alsone.1712–58A. Ramsay Poems (1844) 78 The bauld guid-wife..Came *bellyflaught.1805Nicoll Poems I. 31 (Jam.) Beath flew bellie-flaught I' the pool.
2. to flay belly-flaught: i.e. by pulling the skin off entire over the head.
a1550Priests of Peblis 25 (Jam.) Thus fla they al the puir men belly flaught.1774Monro Descr. Hebr. 47 (Jam.) Quhen they slay their sheepe, they flay them belly flaught.
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