| 单词 | dog-rhyme |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdog-rhyme f. In depreciative sense: bad, spurious, bastard, mongrel; as dog eloquence, dog-English, dog-Greek, dog-logic (also dog's logic), dog rhetoric, dog-rhyme, etc. See also dog-Latin n. at Compounds 3a. Now archaic. [In dog eloquence after post-classical Latin canina facundia (4th cent.).] ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > [noun] > eloquence fairnessOE fair speakinga1387 well-sayingc1425 eloquencec1430 facundie1447 dog eloquence1542 eloquency1545 elocution1593 dulciloquy1623 suaviloquencea1649 suaviloquy1658 articulacy1915 the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Greek > spurious or bad Greek dog-Greek1884 the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Germanic > English > spurious or bad English dog-English1938 1542 T. Elyot Bibliotheca Canina facundia, dogge eloquence. A prouerbe applyed to suche as doo neuer exercise theyr tunge or penne, but in reprouing or blamynge other men. 1565 M. Harding in J. Jewel Def. Apol. Churche Eng. (1567) 94 Luther would stampe, and rage, and whette his dogge eloquence vpon you. 1581 P. Wiburn Checke or Reproofe M. Howlets Shreeching f. 29 Heere is praeda Mysorum, expounded and set out with dogge Rhetorike, and much adoe. 1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Versaccij, dog-rimes, filthy verses. a1625 MS. Bodl. 30 f. 13 a To begge sir Tottipate's applause in dogrime verse. 1638 D. Featley Stricturæ in Lyndomastygem i. sig. A iijv, in H. Lynde Case for Spectacles Every where full of Canina facundia, Dogg-eloquence. 1711 Examiner 1 No. 50 His skill in that part of learning called dog's logic. 1754 W. Warburton View Bolingbroke's Philos.: Lett. 1st & 2nd 18 His Lordship might reasonably think, that his Dog-Eloquence, was well enough fitted to their Dog-Logic. 1884 F. Harrison in 19th Cent. Mar. 496 Agnostic is only dog-Greek for ‘don't know’. 1938 F. M. Ford Let. 16 Mar. (1965) 290 He will at least write comprehensible dog-English. 2002 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 8 Oct. 18 It went from dog-Latin to dog-English, and it's not very uplifting. < as lemmas |
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