| 单词 | gallows-looking |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgallows-looking gallows-looking adj. looking fit for the gallows, having a hang-dog look. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > lack of beauty > ugliness > [adjective] > having a hangdog look gallows-looking1781 1781 J. Greenwood in Maryland Hist. Mag. (1910) 5 126 He was a tall, slim, gallows looking fellow,..with a gold laced jacket on that he had robbed from some old trooper. 1809 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. II. vi. i. 78 Their gallows-looking..myrmidons. 1842 R. H. Barham Misadventures Margate in Ingoldsby Legends 2nd Ser. 155 A little ‘gallows-looking chap’. < as lemmas |
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