单词 | like billy-be-damned |
释义 | > as lemmaslike billy-be-damned euphemistic. Used an intensifier in similative phrases. Frequently in (as) —— as billy-be-damned, like billy-be-damned: extremely, excessively. Cf. billy-o n., as —— as the devil at devil n. Phrases 2b, like the devil at devil n. Phrases 2a. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > hell > [noun] helleOE hellOE perditiona1382 perishingc1384 welling woea1400 hellwardc1400 Topheta1425 gehenne1481 to devilwardc1550 limbo1581 Averna1592 Hades1597 Sheol1599 other place1604 underworld1608 infernals1613 gehenna1623 lower world1639 netherworld1640 pandemonium1667 subterrenea1711 diablerie1776 inferno1834 ballyhooly1837 nether region1839 Sam Hill1839 Ballyhack1843 tunket1871 bogydom1880 the world > the supernatural > deity > a devil > the Devil or Satan > [noun] devileOE Beelzebubc950 the foul ghosteOE SatanOE warlockOE SatanasOE worsea1200 unwinea1225 wondc1250 quedea1275 pucka1300 serpenta1300 dragon1340 shrew1362 Apollyon1382 the god of this worldc1384 Mahoundc1400 leviathan1412 worsta1425 old enemyc1449 Ruffin1567 dismal1570 Plotcocka1578 the Wicked One1582 goodman1603 Mahu1603 foul thief1609 somebody1609 legiona1616 Lord of Flies1622 walliman1629 shaitan1638 Old Nicka1643 Nick1647 unsel?1675 old gentleman1681 old boy1692 the gentleman in black1693 deuce1694 Black Spy1699 the vicious one1713 worricow1719 Old Roger1725 Lord of the Flies1727 Simmie1728 Old Scratch1734 Old Harry1777 Old Poker1784 Auld Hornie1786 old (auld), ill thief1789 old one1790 little-good1821 Tom Walker1833 bogy1840 diabolarch1845 Old Ned1859 iniquity1899 α. β. 1884 Benton (Indiana) Rev. 26 June 3/3 He sat just behind Hoodoo Brown at a table and got drunker'n Billy Bedam.1898 M. Robertson Three Laws & Golden Rule 70 That lunatic of an owner stood on the poop, proud as Billy-be-damn.1981 Conjunctions 1 34 Only the hardiest..managed..to swim like billy bedamn to these states!2006 R. H. Wells We all have Story to Tell 301 The YMCA had bunks there where I could sleep warm. It was colder than ‘Billy be damn’.1849 A. Windeler in W. T. Jackson Gold Rush Diary of German Sailor (1969) 28 [Theodor] looked as big as billy be damned. 1919 A. Stewart Discord 88 Corrupted, bedevilled, diseased, putrescent; in plain language, rotten as Billy be damned. 1993 Canad. Geographic Nov. 43/2 My father had made me a slide out of a salt pork barrel and it went like billy-be-damned down the hill. 2013 E. Williams To Dare Dream vii. 71 Big as Billy-be-damned, I strode in. < as lemmas |
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