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单词 john-a-nods
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John-a-nods
John-a-nods n. Obsolete (historical and archaic in later use) (a generic name for) a person who is drowsy or falling asleep; (hence) a dull, inattentive, or stupid person.
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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > drowsiness > [noun] > one who is drowsy
dormousea1568
drowsy-head1576
sleepy-head1577
John-a-nods1600
soporific1808
somnolent1841
somnivolent1884
drowser1887
1600 N. Breton Pasquils Passe 29 When Iohn a Noddes will be a Gentleman, Because his worship weares a velvet coate..I feare me Doomes day cannot be farre off.
1603 S. Harsnett Declar. Popish Impostures xxiii. 160 Hee would say The Apostle [sc. Saint Iohn] wrote like a good plaine Iohn a Nods.
1639 J. Taylor Iuniper Lect. xi. 94 For her loving Iohn a Nods lets her say and doe what she list.
1895 B. Carman in Bookman Apr. 202 ‘You have begun To mutter in your dreams,’ Said John-a-nods to Jock-a-dreams.
1901 J. H. McCarthy If I were King xii. 214 I have been John-a-Nods for the moment, sire; now I am Jack-a-Deeds again.
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