单词 | dogshead |
释义 | dogsheadn. 1. A term of reproach or abuse. Cf. dog's face n. at dog n.1 Compounds 3d. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > inferior person > [noun] > held in reproach gluttonc1300 jau dewin1340 Pilatec1390 rascal?a1400 swartc1425 hoberdc1450 dogshead1539 ladronea1557 clapperdudgeon1567 soused gurnet1598 jail-bird1603 cocoloch1610 swappes1626 incubee1631 stitchel1659 potwalloper1820 Little Willie1901 1539 Bible (Great) 2 Sam. iii. f. xxxviii Am I not a dogges heed [Gk. κεϕαλὴ κυνὸς; Heb. rō'š kālaḇ], which agaynst Iuda do shewe mercye thys daye vnto the house of Saul thy father, and to his brethren and frendes? 1631 B. Jonson Bartholmew Fayre ii. v. 26 in Wks. II Doe you sneere, you dogs-head, you Trendle tayle! 1676 T. Hobbes tr. Homer Iliads i. 155 Whereof no notice (Dogshead [Gk. κυνῶπα]) now you take. 1949 R. H. Van Gulik tr. Three Murder Cases Solved ix. 70 She even reviled the old undertaker, calling him an old dogshead. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > order Primates > suborder Anthropoidea (higher primates) > [noun] > group Catarrhinae (Old World monkey) > family Cercopithecidae > genus Papio (baboon) > Papio cynocephalus (dog-faced baboon) dogshead1591 cynocephalus1601 dog-head1607 dog-apea1616 cynocephalist1656 dog-faced baboon1790 mottled baboon1800 1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. Cabeça de perro, Dogs head. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > dice-playing > [noun] > throw > lowest or losing throw dog-chance1625 dogsheada1640 dog1671 dog-throw1772 dog's throw1834 a1640 J. Fletcher & P. Massinger Trag. Barnavelt (1980) v. ii. 86 Here are dyce; and ile begin to Ye..dewce ace: a doggs head. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1539 |
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