英语词汇“demon cook”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

b. In sense 4, as demon pitcher, demon player; demon cook, demon gardener, etc. In early use chiefly with reference to someone who excels in a particular sport.Recorded earliest in demon bowler n. at Compounds 5.Sometimes, esp. in later use, passing into adj.

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1861 Birmingham Daily Post 5 Sept. 3/2 Jackson, ‘the demon bowler’, is another member of this powerful team.

1884 Cleveland (Ohio) Herald 28 May 3/3 In New York they call Whitney the demon pitcher.

1890 Golf 26 Dec. 234/2 Peerless Horace..—a demon player.

1912 C. E. Van Loan Ten-thousand-dollar Arm 40 The last thing the demon hitter heard before the storm broke was the thud of the ball in the glove.

1977 New Yorker 3 Oct. 111/1 Curry, up to now a demon punter, could not average better than twenty-nine yards a kick.

1988 L. Colwin Home Cooking xvii. 111 ‘Don't serve it to men’, said an English friend of mine who is a demon cook.

1990 R. Blount First Hubby 183 The seven DaSilva siblings were demon campaigners, wearing hats, leading cheers.

1997 Condé Nast Traveler Mar. 187/3 Kunseng, a lady trader and a demon hand at pool.

2000 B. Weathers & S. G. Michaud Left for Dead 98 He was in any case a demon gardener—Jackson and Perkins, the rose people, often asked him to try out their new hybrids.

单词	demon cook
释义	> as lemmas demon cook b. In sense 4, as demon pitcher, demon player; demon cook, demon gardener, etc. In early use chiefly with reference to someone who excels in a particular sport.Recorded earliest in demon bowler n. at Compounds 5.Sometimes, esp. in later use, passing into adj. ΚΠ 1861 Birmingham Daily Post 5 Sept. 3/2 Jackson, ‘the demon bowler’, is another member of this powerful team. 1884 Cleveland (Ohio) Herald 28 May 3/3 In New York they call Whitney the demon pitcher. 1890 Golf 26 Dec. 234/2 Peerless Horace..—a demon player. 1912 C. E. Van Loan Ten-thousand-dollar Arm 40 The last thing the demon hitter heard before the storm broke was the thud of the ball in the glove. 1977 New Yorker 3 Oct. 111/1 Curry, up to now a demon punter, could not average better than twenty-nine yards a kick. 1988 L. Colwin Home Cooking xvii. 111 ‘Don't serve it to men’, said an English friend of mine who is a demon cook. 1990 R. Blount First Hubby 183 The seven DaSilva siblings were demon campaigners, wearing hats, leading cheers. 1997 Condé Nast Traveler Mar. 187/3 Kunseng, a lady trader and a demon hand at pool. 2000 B. Weathers & S. G. Michaud Left for Dead 98 He was in any case a demon gardener—Jackson and Perkins, the rose people, often asked him to try out their new hybrids. extracted from demonn.adj. < as lemmas
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