| 单词 | high words |
| 释义 | > as lemmashigh (also hard) words d. high (also hard) words: angry words, reproaches. Cf. sense A. 9a. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > anger > manifestation of anger > [noun] > angry speech misword?c1225 hard words1583 storm1602 bark1663 warmth1710 1583 J. Foxe Actes & Monuments (ed. 4) I. 1189/1 Upon this, great and hygh wordes rose betwene them. 1592 L. Andrewes Wonderfull Combate vii. f. 88v Our Sauiour (we see) doth not only refuse the thing: but also giues him hard words. 1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. i. 1 When hard words, Jealousies and Fears, Set Folks together by the ears. 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones VI. xvi. ii. 6 This so incensed her Father, that..he departed from her with many hard Words and Curses. 1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison II. xii. 86 High words passed between them. They parted in passion. 1842 Ld. Tennyson Dora in Poems (new ed.) II. 34 He and I Had once hard words, and parted. 1879 Scribner's Monthly Nov. 154/1 So these twain stood bandying hard words, but the goodly-greaved Achaeans sprang up with a wondrous din. 1962 D. Lessing Golden Notebk. iv. 451 I was a hundred per cent party member, and there was Harry, a dirty Trot, so there were high words and we parted for ever. 1993 P. Ackroyd House of Dr. Dee (1994) v. 184 Being delayed by some high words with my servant for leaving my close-stool uncleansed. < as lemmas |
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