单词 | gone-soft |
释义 | > as lemmasgone-soft C2. With an adjective or (occasionally) other complement, with the sense ‘that has gone or become ——’ (cf. go v. 44a), as gone-mad, gone-off, gone-soft, gone-wild, etc. ΚΠ 1843 Metrop. Mag. June 205 A wild, harum-scarum, sort of gone-mad person. 1904 C. C. Harrison Sylvia's Husband i. 6 Her too-mature daughter, Maud, resembling a gone-off Botticelli nymph. 1910 Times Lit. Suppl. 6 Oct. 354/3 Lives of the Fur Folk. The Biographies of Redpath the Fox—Fluff-button the Rabbit—Grimalkin the ‘gone wild’ Cat—Stubbs the Badger. By M. D. Haviland. 1921 Harper's Mag. Dec. 96/1 She is one of the gone-out-of-date young women who rather appeal to me. 1925 A. S. M. Hutchinson One Increasing Purpose iii. xv. 379 Not a fit man..but a gone-soft and nerve-wracked man. 1961 R. L. Taylor Journey to Matecumbe xx. 292 Animals will turn a gone-bad specimen out of a pack, and so will a native tribe. 1995 Take One: Film in Canada Summer 34/2 Emilio Estevez is a gone-wrong lawyer..sentenced to community service coaching kids. 2006 K. Noel Halfway House xvi. 165 She pulled out the potatoes, the gone-soft celery, the carrots with their soft white fringe of new roots. < as lemmas |
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