单词 | john-a-nods |
释义 | > as lemmasJohn-a-nods ΘΚΠ 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. < as lemmas |
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