| 释义 |
ˈbible-back U.S. and dial.
[Bible III.]
A hump-backed or round-shouldered person.
1873G. W. Perrie Buckskin Mose x. 145 Pitching our camp in the Lassen Meadows, at La Due Very's, generally known as Old Bible-back. 1896G. F. Northall Warwickshire Word-Bk., Bible-back, a person with broad, rounded shoulders. ‘Here comes old bibleback!’ 1903Dialect Notes II. 349 Bible-back, Rockland Co. N.Y. Bergen Co. N.J.
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1857Olympia (W.T.) Pioneer & Democrat 11 Dec. (Th.), We might, in consequence, become somewhat round-shouldered and ‘bible-backed’. 1873N. & Q. XII. 227 What kind of shoulders? Rather high. Anything else? He was humpy or bible-backed. |