| 单词 | crick neck |
| 释义 | > as lemmascrick neck General attributive and parasynthetic, in crick back, crick-backed, crick neck, etc. ΚΠ 1774 Mrs. Harris in Priv. Lett. Ld. Malmesbury I. 276 She has had what was formerly named a crick neck, but the modern phrase now for those vulgar things is rheumatism. 1831 La Belle Assemblée Oct. 152/1 Our gracious Queen got a crick neck, as a reward for her civility, in returning the salutations of her right faithful people. 1867 Brit. Farmer's Mag. 53 117 He had nothing to beat beyond Bedminster, as Durham was changed for O Rest, a crick-backed horse. 1911 A. Eger Baker's Theory & Pract. Vet. Med. (ed. 3) 242 Tabes dorsalis or locomotor ataxia is the same as sclerosis of the cord. It is sometimes called ‘crick back’. 1927 Folk-lore 38 413 Break off one of the pods and throw it at him and he will have crick neck too. 1996 Independent on Sunday 6 Oct. (Review Suppl.) 55/1 Seventy-foot palm trees..soar up towards the remote glass roof.., and the guests wander about, crick-necked and flabbergasted. 2004 R. Hoffman Chicken Dreaming Corn 157 All that night Morris had not slept, envisioning Jonas, weathered and crick-backed, stretched crone on the floor. < as lemmas |
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