| 单词 | high-liver |
| 释义 | > as lemmashigh-liver high-liver n. (a) a person who lives the high life; (b) a person who professes a higher spiritual life than the ordinary (rare). ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > luxury or luxurious living > [noun] > one who lives luxuriously delicatea1382 high-liver1715 feather-bedder1952 sweet-lifer1967 society > faith > aspects of faith > piety > sanctimoniousness > [noun] > person Pharisee1539 card gospeller1550 lip-gospeller?1556 saint1563 table-gospeller1570 separatist1620 Christera1650 canter1652 high-liver1715 cant1725 pietist1767 devil dodger1791 goody1816 creeping Jesusc1818 Mawworm1825 goody-two-shoes1843 Pecksniff1844 goody-goody1872 goody-good1879 lip-Christian1882 plaster saint1890 holy Willie1916 1715 R. South 12 Serm. IV. 86 The unclean Devil haunts the Families of the rich, the gallant, and the high Livers. 1744 G. Berkeley Siris (ESTC T72826) 59 Small imperceptible irritations of the minutest fibres or filaments, caused by the pungent salts of wines and sauces, do so shake and disturb the microcosms of high livers, as often to raise tempests in courts and senates. 1881 J. W. Buel Border Outlaws 166 All the band were known to be high livers during their periods of plenty. 1888 Forum (U.S.) Aug. 692 Among these high-livers and faith-curers. 1926 People's Home Jrnl. Feb. 30/4 (advt.) Give your digestive system a chance, and it will function with almost any kind of food—even doughnuts; baked beans... Hearty eaters—hard smokers—high livers—use Stuart's. 2008 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 30 Apr. a6/2 He attacked ‘the cynicism of the gauche caviars’, the high-livers on the left. < as lemmas |
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