单词 | languisher |
释义 | languishern. A person who languishes or pines; (also) a person who affects a languid air; someone who looks or glances tenderly or longingly. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > sick person > [noun] sickc888 lazar1340 sickmanc1340 laborant?a1425 suffererc1450 malade1483 patient1484 lazar-man1552 languisher1599 ruina1616 plaintiff1633 valetudinarist1651 valetudinaire?c1682 valetudinarian1703 invalid1709 infirm1711 invaletudinarian1762 valetudinary1785 complainant1861 aegrotant1865 degenerate1895 the world > action or operation > behaviour > affected behaviour or affectation > [noun] > affected person affecter1607 snuffler1642 languisher1713 attitudinarian1756 attitudinizer1824 pseudo1829 posturer1833 posturist1857 poseur1869 affectationist1873 Turveydrop1877 posturant1882 poser1888 four-flusher1904 gobdaw1947 nerd1951 pseud1954 jive-ass1964 the mind > emotion > love > flirtation or coquetry > [noun] > amorous looks or demeanour > one who assumes languid look for flirtation languisher1713 the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > [noun] > dejected or gloomy person > one living in depressing conditions languisher1751 1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 37 Our moderne phisitions, that to any sicke languishers if they be able to waggle their chaps, propound veale for one of the highest nourishers. 1669 J. Reynolds Disc. Prodigious Abstinence 32 The spirits of these languishers ('tis probable) are scant and defective. 1688 A. Behn Fair Jilt 38 He needed but only see the fair Languisher, to confess himself her Slave. 1713 R. Steele in Guardian 20 June 1/1 The very Servants are bent upon Delights, and commence Oglers and Languishers. 1751 E. Carter Rambler No. 100. ⁋2 These unhappy languishers in obscurity. 1759 W. Mason Caractacus 77 Mingle the potion so, that it may kill me Just at the instant, this poor languisher Heaves his last sigh. 1846 N. P. Willis Poems (ed. 6) 256 I—a languisher for sunnier climes. 1896 Godey's Mag. Feb. 193/2 A few silly languishers flutter and simper, ‘How nice! how lovely!’ 1936 R. P. Utter & G. B. Needham Pamela's Daughters ii. 36 A fund of initiative, energy and self-confidence far beyond the command of the delicate languishers of the novels of sensibility. 1963 Musical Times 104 492/2 Soubrette parts are easier to bring off than love-lorn languishers. 1992 P. Jackson Sat. Afternoons at Old Met ix. 104 This Wolfram is no shadowy, hopeless languisher after Elisabeth but a man of strength and intensity of feeling. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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