| 单词 | child-queller |
| 释义 | > as lemmaschild-queller child-queller n. now rare †(a) a person who kills children (obsolete); (b) (humorous) a person who deals severely with children. ΚΠ ?1518 Cocke Lorelles Bote sig. B.vjv Mortherers, Crakers, facers and chylderne quellers. 1846 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) viii. 72 The Castle of this ogress and child-queller was in a steep bye-street. 1930 E. Wingfield-Stratford Those Earnest Victorians ix. 82 Mr. Mill must be admitted to have fallen a good deal short of Mr. Fairchild as a child-queller, though his children..seem to have suffered in health under his ministrations. < as lemmas |
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