One who pines away, a sickly creature.
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释义 | the world > health and disease > ill health > sick person > [noun] > weak person (30) dwininga1400 One who pines away, a sickly creature. molla1425 A soft or weak thing or person; spec. an effeminate man. impotenta1513 An impotent person. gristlea1556 figurative. A tender or delicate person. Obsolete. weakling1576 A person or animal that lacks physical strength, or is weak in health or constitution. puler1579 A person who pules; one who is whining or weak. Now rare. puling1579 A person who pules; a weakling. shadow1588 figurative. Used hyperbolically to designate a person extremely emaciated or feeble. Frequently in to wear (oneself or another) to a shadow. shotten herring1598 transferred and figurative. In shotten herring, applied to a person who is exhausted by sickness or destitute of strength or resources (archaic)… doddle1681 ? A doddling or infirm person. sickrel1699 ‘A puny, sickly creature.’ seven-months1724 designating a child born at the seventh month of gestation, often with implication of weakliness. wandought1726 A feeble or puny person. wallydraigle1736 A weak, sickly, puny, or undersized person or animal. wreck1795 A person of undermined, shattered, or ruined constitution; one who is debilitated by ill-health, hardship, etc. (Cf. sense 6b.) werewolf1808 Scottish dialect. (See quot. 1808.) windlestraw1818 figurative. Applied to a thin lanky person, or one of feeble health or character. weed1825 colloquial. A person who is tall, thin, and lacking in physical strength or stamina; a feeble or weedy person, regarded as contemptible; a… shammock1828 Used as a term of depreciation, with many varieties of meaning; a lazy, slovenly person; a starved, miserable-looking person or animal. sickling1834 A sickly or delicate person. forcible feeble1844 A feeble person who makes great pretence of vigour; also used attributively or as adj. dwindle1847 concrete. A dwindled or shrunken object. weedling1849 colloquial. A weedy person or (occasionally) animal; a weakling. Cf. weed, n.1 9. crock1876 slang. Used contemptuously of persons. Now usually a broken-down or physically debilitated person; an invalid; a hypochondriac. colloquial or dialect. feebling1887 A weakling, a feeble person. asthenic1893 One who is asthenic. dodderer1907 One who dodders; one infirm in body or mind; a feeble or inept person. pencil-neck1956 slang (usually depreciative). An excessively studious or effete person; a person with a poor physique (as exemplified by a thin or scrawny neck)… burnt-out case1959 burnt out. Of a leper: cured (see quot. 1959), esp. in burnt-out case. Also figurative (frequently with influence of sense 2a). weakie1959 A person who is weak in constitution, character, or ability; a weakling. Chiefly Australian. |
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