单词 | hell-bred |
释义 | hell-bredadj. colloquial. Bred or engendered in or as in hell; hellish, evil. Cf. hell-born adj. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > hell > [adjective] > originating from hell-born1589 hell-bred1590 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. xi. sig. L4v What outrage, and what cries..The hell-bred beast [sc. the Dragon] threw forth vnto the skies. 1640 R. Brome Sparagus Garden ii. v, in Wks. (1873) III. 149 Oh thou hel-bred Rascall thou. 1686 H. Grenfield God in Creature 125 A swarm of Hell-bred mischiefs rushes out. a1711 T. Ken Hymns for Festivals in Wks. (1721) I. 300 His very Temper seem'd on fire With Hell-bred Ire. 1799 J. West Poems & Plays IV. 249 'Tis thine to dissipate the hell-bred gloom. 1862 Janesville (Wisconsin) Daily Gaz. 8 Aug. Pretexts for intervention by force between that government and its hell born and hell bred foes. 1875 T. J. Rice Departure vii. 83 Dread of an endless hell [has]..little restraining influence upon such as had the misfortune to be hell-begotten, hell-born, hell-bred, and hence hell-constituted. 1904 W. V. Moody Fire-bringer ii. 46 Wolves, snakes, and field-rats, crept from out the flood For hunger and the hell-bred fog to rot! 1953 D. J. Enright Coll. Poems 1948–98 (1998) 3 The tourist, homesick on a hell-bred donkey. 2007 News Tribune (Tacoma, Washington) (Nexis) 2 Mar. b4 [North Korea] detonated its first nuclear explosion—fueled by that hell-bred element [sc. plutonium]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1590 |
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