| 单词 | backwoods-trained |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbackwoods-trained General attributive. Also backwood. Also in combinations, as backwoods-trained adj.; backwoods peer = backwoodsman n. 2. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > governing or legislative body of a nation or community > English or British parliament > [noun] > Member of Parliament > types of member of House of Lords law-lord1773 lay lord1863 backwoodsman1909 overlord1951 backwoods peer1956 1784 J. F. D. Smyth Tour U.S.A. I. i. 12 The American soldiery, chiefly then back-woods riflemen. 1822 J. Flint Lett. from Amer. 207 His live-stock soon becomes much more numerous than that of his back-wood predecessor. 1863 P. Ruysdale Pilgrimage over Prairies II. 107 Enjoying ourselves in the approved backwoods fashion. 1905 E. W. Hornung Thief in Night 110 Parrington, the backwoods novelist..one of the shaggiest dogs I have ever seen in evening dress. 1921 Gill & Valentine Govt. & People x. 105 ‘Backwoods’ Peers, who take little interest in politics. 1927 J. A. Spender Life, Journalism & Politics I. 236 The backwoods peers said that if they had to submit they would rather go down fighting than have their privileges bartered away in secret. 1942 W. Faulkner Go down, Moses & Other Stories 204 Ashby..leads a handful of troops he never saw before against an entrenched position of backwoods-trained riflemen. 1956 A. L. Rowse Early Churchills 109 Lord Belasyse, who—though a backwoods Catholic peer—was not without nous. < as lemmas |
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