| 单词 | hard-witted |
| 释义 | > as lemmashard-witted hard-witted adj. †(a) lacking in intelligence, slow-witted (obsolete); (b) shrewd, businesslike. ΚΠ c1450 J. Metham Physiognomy in Wks. (1916) 140 A ryght hasty man and a hard-wyttyd. a1568 R. Ascham Scholemaster (1570) i. f. 4 When they meete with a hard witted scholer, they rather breake him, than bowe him. 1677 G. Miege New Dict. French & Eng. i. sig. *Dd4v/2 Dur d'esprit, hard-witted,..slow of apprehension. 1741 J. Serenius Dictionarium Suethico-Anglo-Latinum 36/2 Dumb,..artless, dull, hardwitted. 1841 I. D'Israeli Amenities Lit. III. 102 His hard-witted and unpliant faculties..when thrown amid the supernatural and the ideal seemed suddenly deserted of their powers. 1852 Chambers's Edinb. Jrnl. 3 Jan. 9/2 The papa..was a hard-witted, busy lawyer. 1911 Americana Nov. 1111 A surly, shrewd, hard-witted old booklover's devotion to his librarian's business. 2003 Weekend Austral. (Nexis) 22 Mar. b1 Merrymakers come in all shapes and sizes, most of them insecure and baffled by their choice of livelihood but all of them hard-witted kidders. < as lemmas |
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