| 单词 | lad of wax |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslad of wax a. A boy, youth; a young man, young fellow. Also, in the diction of pastoral poetry, used to denote ‘a young shepherd’. In wider sense applied familiarly or endearingly (sometimes ironically) to a male person of any age, esp. in the form of address my lad. lad of wax: a shoemaker. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > young person > youth or young man > [noun] frumberdlingc1000 young manOE childc1225 hind1297 pagec1300 youtha1325 fawnc1369 swainc1386 stripling1398 boy1440 springaldc1450 jovencel1490 younkera1522 speara1529 gorrel1530 lad1535 hobbledehoy1540 cockerel1547 waga1556 spring1559 loonc1560 hensure1568 youngster1577 imp1578 pigsney1581 cocklinga1586 demy1589 muchacho1591 shaver1592 snipper-snappera1593 callant1597 spaught1598 stubble boy1598 ghillie1603 codling1612 cuba1616 skippera1616 man-boy1637 sprig1646 callow1651 halflang1660 stubbed boy1683 gossoon1684 gilpie1718 stirraha1722 young lion1792 halfling1794 pubescent1795 young man1810 sixteener1824 señorito1843 tad1845 boysie1846 shaveling1854 ephebe1880 boychick1921 lightie1946 young blood1967 studmuffin1986 the world > people > person > child > boy > [noun] knightc893 knapec1000 knaveOE knape childc1175 knave-childa1225 groom?c1225 knight-bairnc1275 pagec1300 mana1382 swainc1386 knave-bairna1400 little mana1425 man-childa1438 boy1440 little boya1475 lad1535 boykin1540 tomboya1556 urchin1556 loonc1560 kinchin-co(ve)1567 big boy1572 dandiprat1582 pricket1582 boy child1584 callant1597 suck-egg1609 nacketc1618 custrel1668 hospital-boy1677 whelp1710 laddie1721 charity-boy1723 pam-child1760 chappie1822 bo1825 boyo1835 wagling1837 shirttail boy1840 boysie1846 umfaan1852 nipper1859 yob1859 fellow-my-lad?1860 laddo1870 chokra1875 shegetz1885 spalpeen1891 spadger1899 bug1900 boychick1921 sonny boy1928 sonny1939 okie1943 lightie1946 outjie1961 oke1970 the mind > emotion > love > terms of endearment > [noun] > of or to a man sonOE brotherOE friarc1290 lad1535 fellow1577 bubba1841 old top1856 bra1869 bro1918 mush1936 ouboet1953 coz1961 oppa1963 bruv1970 the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > [noun] > sheep herding > shepherd > type of sheep-reeve1450 page1590 shepherdling1605 under-shepherda1640 lad1717 lamber1809 mayoral1879 hurdle-man1880 motherer1890 rouser1896 rousie1906 boundary-keeper1933 the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > making footwear > [noun] > shoemaking > shoemaker souterc1000 cordwainera1100 shoemaker1381 corviser1401 seatsman1719 crispin1721 snob1785 lad of wax1794 shoeman1841 snobber1900 c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 283/1 Ladde, or knave, garcio. 1483 Cath. Angl. 206/1 A Ladde, vbi a knaffe.] 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Prov. xxii. B Foolishnes sticketh in the herte of ye lad, but ye rod of correccion driueth it awaye. 1552 H. Latimer Serm. (1584) 323 First he is a childe; afterward he becommeth a ladde; then a yong man, and after that a perfect man. 1562 A. Scott Poems (1896) i. 53 Lymmer lawdis and litle lassis. 1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 i. ii. 100 Prin. Where shal we take a purse to morrow Iacke? Falst... Where thou wilt lad. ?1602 Narcissus (MS Bodl. Rawl. poet. 212) (1893) 78 Why, well said, my ladds of mettall. 1608 A. Willet Hexapla in Exodum 787 Our blessed Sauiour..said to his disciples, children, or lads, haue ye any meate? 1630 T. Dekker Second Pt. Honest Whore ii. i. 70 How now old Lad, what doest cry? a1650 Captain Carr 30 in Furnivall Percy Folio I. 81 ‘Ile not giue over my house’, shee said, ‘neither for Ladds nor man’. 1709 J. Byrom Let. 14 May in Private Jrnl. & Lit. Remains (1854) I. i. 6 The other two sizers, one sophister, the other a Lancashire lad of our year. 1717 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 1 Apr. (1965) I. 331 The young Lads..divert themselves with makeing Girlands for their favourite Lambs. 1720 D. Defoe Mem. Cavalier 285 The old Lad was not to be caught. 1794 Sporting Mag. 3 201 Requesting you as a brother lad of wax to make me some of your tight shoes. 1829 T. Hood Dream Eugene Aram in Gem 1 111 My gentle lad, what is't you read? 1856 R. M. Ballantyne Snowflakes & Sunbeams xxviii. 390 What did you say struck you, Harry, my lad? 1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus Poems lxxviii. 4 Lovely the lady, the lad lovely, a company sweet. 1885 J. Ruskin Præterita I. v. 140 All handsome lads and pretty lasses. lad of wax c. man of wax, lad of wax: used as a term of emphatic commendation. Now archaic and dialect (see Eng. Dial. Dict).The origin of this expression is not clear. It may have meant ‘as faultless as if modelled in wax’ (cf. 2d). Some would refer it to wax n.2 ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > excellence > [noun] > excellent person gemc1275 blooma1300 excellence1447 mirrorc1450 man of mena1470 treasure?1545 paragon1548 shining light1563 Apollo's swan?1592 man of wax1597 rara avis1607 Titan1611 choice spirita1616 excellency1725 inestimable1728 inimitable1751 cock of the walk1781 surpasser1805 shiner1810 swell1816 trump1819 tip-topper1822 star1829 beauty1832 soarer1895 trumph1895 pansy1899 Renaissance man1906 exemplum virtutis1914 museum piece1920 superman1925 flyer1930 pistol1935 all-star1949 1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet i. iii. 78 Why he is a man of waxe . View more context for this quotation 1607 T. Dekker & J. Webster West-ward Hoe ii. i. sig. C2 Hees a Knight made out of waxe. 1612 N. Field Woman a Weather-cocke i. B 4 b By Ioue it is a little man of wax. 1620 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Phylaster i. 7 Oh tis a Prince of wax. 1821 W. T. Moncrieff Tom & Jerry iii. iii A glass of good max..Wou'd have made them, like us, lads of wax. 1840 Peter Parley's Ann. 131 The shoemaker..surveyed the Prince from top to bottom. ‘No tailor could do that,’ said he; ‘he must be a lad of wax.’ 1858 A. Trollope Dr. Thorne I. iv. 85 All right, my lad of wax. 1880 R. D. Blackmore Mary Anerley II. v. 98 Could any lad of wax put up with this, least of all a daring mariner? < as lemmas |
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