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单词 hell-bred
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hell-bredadj.

Brit. /ˈhɛlbrɛd/, U.S. /ˈhɛlˌbrɛd/
Forms: see hell n. and int. and bred adj.1
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: hell n., bred adj.1
Etymology: < hell n. + bred adj.1 Compare slightly earlier hell-born adj.
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
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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).
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