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单词 dool-owl
释义

dool-owln.

Etymology: < dool (dole n.2) + owl n.
dialect.
An owl (as a symbol of gloom); in quots. transferred, a dull, depressing person.
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1928 D. H. Lawrence Lady Chatterley's Lover xi. 196 When I look at women who's never really been warmed through by a man, well, they seem to me poor dool-owls after all.
1929 D. H. Lawrence Pansies 144 The upper classes... Such bloomin' fat-arsed dool-owls.
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