英语词汇“cock of the dunghill”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

†P3. cock of the dunghill and variants: the chief, most dominant, or pre-eminent person in a place, situation, etc.; esp. (depreciative) a person who overvalues having pre-eminent status in a context viewed as inconsequential or unappealing. Also in extended use of a thing. Cf. cock n.¹ 13. Obsolete.

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a1586 Sir P. Sidney Apol. Poetrie (1595) sig. F2^v Alexander and Darius, when they straue who should be Cocke of thys worlds dunghill.

1678 V. Alsop Melius Inquirendum i. ii. 102 One needless Opinion is made Cock of the Dung-hill, and Crows over all the rest its equals, and may be its betters.

1787 C. Dibdin Harvest-home ii. 22 I'd have you to know, I am cock of the dunghill, and no one shall approach my partlet.

1858 A. Trollope Three Clerks III. xi. 194 Mr. Chaffanbrass was the cock of this dunghill.

1897 A. Marchmont By Right of Sword iii. 26 There was a beast of a sergeant—a strong fellow in his way who had been cock of the dunghill until I came.

单词	cock of the dunghill
释义	> as lemmas cock of the dunghill †P3. cock of the dunghill and variants: the chief, most dominant, or pre-eminent person in a place, situation, etc.; esp. (depreciative) a person who overvalues having pre-eminent status in a context viewed as inconsequential or unappealing. Also in extended use of a thing. Cf. cock n.¹ 13. Obsolete. ΚΠ a1586 Sir P. Sidney Apol. Poetrie (1595) sig. F2^v Alexander and Darius, when they straue who should be Cocke of thys worlds dunghill. 1678 V. Alsop Melius Inquirendum i. ii. 102 One needless Opinion is made Cock of the Dung-hill, and Crows over all the rest its equals, and may be its betters. 1787 C. Dibdin Harvest-home ii. 22 I'd have you to know, I am cock of the dunghill, and no one shall approach my partlet. 1858 A. Trollope Three Clerks III. xi. 194 Mr. Chaffanbrass was the cock of this dunghill. 1897 A. Marchmont By Right of Sword iii. 26 There was a beast of a sergeant—a strong fellow in his way who had been cock of the dunghill until I came. extracted from dunghilln.adj. < as lemmas
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