| 单词 | hell-hole |
| 释义 | > as lemmashell-hole hell-hole n. [compare Old High German helliloh (Middle High German helleloh)] †the opening into hell (obsolete); (also) a dreary, oppressive, or unpleasant place; cf. sense A. 5b. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > hell > [noun] > as pit or abyss hell pitOE pitOE abysmc1350 hell-holec1400 abyssc1460 bisme1483 pota1500 barathrum?1510 bottomless pit1526 limbo-lake1558 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > other types of dwelling > [noun] > vile or miserable hell-holec1400 dogholec1450 cabin1594 sty1605 hole1616 hogsty1688 gourbi1738 rathole1770 pigsty1798 hell's kitchen1827 den1836 kennel1837 pigpen1872 rural slum1886 c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) l. 223 Hurled in-to helle-hole. 1850 Rep. Deb. & Proc. Convent. for Revision Constit. State of Indiana 206/1 Some abominable hell-hole of iniquity. 1882 M. Arnold Irish Ess. 71 Our ‘Hell-holes’, as Cobbett calls our manufacturing towns. 1945 J. B. Priestley Three Men in New Suits ii. 26 Go and drudge in some hell-hole of an office. 2006 P. Rusesabagina & T. Zoellner Ordinary Man xi. 250 The relatives of some of the prisoners live around the fringes of these hellholes to bring them food. < as lemmas |
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