| 单词 | hen-headed |
| 释义 | > as lemmashen-headed hen-headed adj. daft, silly, or scatty; cf. hen-brained adj., chicken-headed adj. ΚΠ 1700 Let. June in E. Cruickshanks et al. House of Commons (2002) IV. 805 I never will do like hen-headed James, Run away and throw my Great Seal in the Thames. 1843 Freeman's Jrnl. (Dublin) 7 Oct. Your hen-headed people assume a wrong position, and complain that others will not accommodate themselves to their prejudices. 1868 A. R. W. Curtis & D. S. Curtis Spirit of Seventy-six 11 Jane Smith..lost her reckoning, and ran aground on Cape Cod. Jane always was a hen-headed thing ! 1938 A. H. Bill Astrophel iv. 76 Elizabeth, always short of money.., railed against the required outlay like a hen-headed housewife over a coal bill. 2016 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 12 Apr. But isn't it ludicrous and hen-headed to apply the same generalisations to, say, the $2000-a-night ‘chatelaines’..who advertise themselves online? < as lemmas |
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