| 单词 | long cripple |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslong cripple long cripple n. English regional (south-western) a snake, slow worm, or lizard. ΚΠ 1758 W. Borlase Nat. Hist. Cornwall 284 We have a kind of viper which we call the Long-cripple: It is the slow-worm or deaf-adder of authors. 1864 E. Cornwall Gloss. in Jrnl. Royal Inst. Cornwall Mar. 17 Long-cripple, a lizard: in some parts applied to the snake. 1896 S. Baring-Gould Dartmoor Idylls 223 He rins away from me..jist for all the world as if I were a long-cripple. 1990 W. Graham Twisted Sword (2008) 447 ‘Jud used to call them [sc. adders] long cripples’, Demelza said. < as lemmas |
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