单词 | hot-blooded |
释义 | hot-bloodedadj. 1. Inclined to powerful emotion, passionate; hot-tempered. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > passion > [adjective] > subject to passion or strong emotion passionate?a1425 passionablec1475 vehementa1492 affectionate1534 red-hot1593 salamandry1610 hot-bloodeda1616 salamandrous1711 warm-blooded1831 passionful1842 brimstony1885 the mind > emotion > excitement > excitability of temperament > [adjective] tickle1534 gunpowder1598 agitable1603 activable1606 thatched1606 excitable1609 powdery1611 incensible1614 hot-bloodeda1616 warm-headed1690 combustible1698 fermentable1731 intoxicablea1734 tindery1753 inflammable1800 pattypan1858 gunpowdery1868 gunpowderous1870 erethic1888 arousable1890 hyper1942 a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) v. v. 2 Now the hot-bloodied-Gods assist me. View more context for this quotation 1671 R. Head & F. Kirkman Eng. Rogue III. vi. 98 I would never have condescended so low, as to prostitute my body to the unlawful embraces of some hot-blooded Gallant. 1696 W. Cockburn Acct. Distempers Seafaring People ii. xv. 157 James Graham, of a thin habit of body, and very hot blooded, fell into a most violent Looseness. 1746 C. Macklin Henry VII v. ii. 87 Those hot-blooded English. 1799 J. Grahame Wallace ii. vi. 34 I thought thou wert a fierce, hot-blooded man, But till this day I thought thee honest. 1837 T. B. Macaulay Ld. Bacon in Edinb. Rev. July 17 379 Many an honest member of the House of Commons had..been sent to the Tower by the proud and hot-blooded Tudors. 1879 J. A. Froude Cæsar xvi. 259 The Germans, being undisciplined and hot-blooded, were less easy to be restrained. 1925 W. Faulkner Let. 1 May in J. G. Watson Thinking of Home (1992) 205 I am a fiery hot blooded southerner and a stranger could not come in my home and refuse a drink. 1970 L. Meriwether Daddy was Number Runner 70 He..should have known better than to marry a high-yaller hot-blooded Creole from New Orleans. 2004 Asiana Autumn 243/1 Berry-stained lips got the hot blooded boys bubbling. 2. Zoology. Homeothermic; = warm-blooded adj. a. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > temperature and regulation > [adjective] > normal temperature > warm-blooded hot-blooded1789 warm1793 warm-blooded1793 1789 W. Cullen Treat. Materia Medica I. ii. 316 Although the substance of fishes is putrescent..their putrefaction is with different circumstances from that of the hot-blooded animals. 1825 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 115 81 In the ova of hot-blooded animals, the first parts formed are the brain and spinal marrow. 1874 J. W. Draper Hist. Confl. between Relig. & Sci. (1875) 248 The hot-blooded animals could not exist in an atmosphere so laden with carbonic acid. 1928 Amer. Naturalist 62 275 Adult birds are ordinarily considered to be hot-blooded animals having a stable temperature which groups them with the mammals as homoiothermic. 1975 A. J. Desmond (title) The hot-blooded dinosaurs: a revolution in palaeontology. 2002 Times 23 Aug. (Times2 section) 2 The machine [sc. an insect trap]..emits a thin, moist plume of carbon dioxide, intended to mimic the exhalation of a hot-blooded animal. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.a1616 |
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