| 单词 | fool-bewitching |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfool-bewitching (a) With participles, agent nouns, and verbal nouns, forming compounds in which fool expresses the object of the underlying verb, as in fool-bewitching, fool-frighting (adjectives), fool-making (noun and adjective). Frequently with reference to the deception or exploitation of people, typically with the implication that the victim is foolish or gullible.Cf. also fool-finder n., fool-taken adj. at Compounds 1d(b), fool trap n. at Compounds 3. ΚΠ 1607 Fayre Mayde of Exchange sig. C2 Foole-bewitching beautie. 1624 T. Scott Symmachia 16 The perpetuall Cockering of foole-makeing and foole-fauoring flatterie. 1683 J. Crowne City Politiques iv. 41 A Pamphlet will take up Fools here, make Fools there. A Pamphliteer is the best Fool-maker in the Nation. a1721 J. Sheffield Wks. (1723) I. 238 Fiery Meteors, and Fool-frighting Ghosts. 1865 ‘C. Bede’ Rook's Garden 123 One of the many variations of this favourite pastime of Fool-making through the medium of imaginary spiritualistic and supernatural agency, is known by the name of ‘Ruling the Planets’. 1916 R. Marsh Adventures Judith Lee 101 Together we went to 37, Airedale Street, the advertised address of the fool-snaring Clarice. 1930 S. P. Cadman Answers to Everyday Questions ix. 332 Every business office is perhaps the better for the fool-silencer. 2011 North Shore News (Brit. Columbia) (Nexis) 20 May 42 The A-Team had it all: cigar-chomping badassery,..fool-pitying. < as lemmas |
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