单词 | empty-bellied |
释义 | > as lemmasempty-bellied empty-bellied adj. ΚΠ 1650 A. Ross Marrow of Hist. v. iii. 485 The Romans were well fed betimes, before day; the Carthiginians were empty-bellied. 1837 B. D. Walsh tr. Aristophanes Knights i. iii, in Comedies 159 You've cut Empty-bellied [Gk. κενῇ τῇ κοιλίᾳ] to the Town-hall. 2011 L. A. Kreiser Defeating Lee vi. 182 Meade promised bread, but instead the empty-bellied Pennsylvanians received ‘orders to move immediately’. < as lemmas |
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