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单词 merry-mouthed
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merry-mouthed
a. Forming (chiefly parasynthetic) adjectives, as merry-conceited, merry-faced, merry-hearted, merry-lipped, merry-looking, merry-mouthed, merry-voiced, etc.
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c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Huntington HM 137) (1873) C. x. 126 Hit aren murye-mouthede men, mynstrales of heuene.
1547 W. Baldwin Treat. Morall Phylos. i. xx. sig. Fv Aristippus..was a merye wytted fellowe.
1548 Sir P. Hoby in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) II. App. Y. 79 I hear say he is a man somewhat aged and merry-conceited when he list.
1601 J. Bennet in T. Morley Madrigales: Triumphes of Oriana sig. Biij All cre'tures now are merry merry minded.
1611 Bible (King James) Isa. xxiv. 7 All the merrie hearted doe sigh. View more context for this quotation
1625 K. Long tr. J. Barclay Argenis iv. xi. 277 He was..merry-conceited in words.
1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck Klucht-sinnigh, merrie-minded.
1684 T. Otway Atheist iii. 23 You Plump-cheekt, Merry-ey'd Rogue.
1727 J. Thomson Summer 78 His folded Flock secure, the Shepherd Home Hies, merry-hearted.
1780 Mirror No. 103. ⁋409 There is a sturdy, idle, impudent, merry looking dog of a sailor..stationed at the corner of the street where I lodge.
1816 L. Hunt To J. H. in Examiner 8 Sept. 570/1 It [sc. a mouth] breaks into such sweetness, With merry-lipped completeness.
1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby vi. 51 The merry-faced gentleman sent round the punch.
1851 J. Ruskin Stones of Venice I. xx. 220 Clear, crisp, ringing, merry-minded waves.
1860 P. H. Gosse Romance Nat. Hist. (ed. 7) 105 Those crinking merry-voiced denizens of our summer-fields.
1892 R. L. Stevenson & L. Osbourne Wrecker xxiii. 360 He was so easy-going, and so merry-minded, that none could bear to disappoint him.
1909 A. C. Benson Poems 23 Fresh and ardent, merry-hearted.
1957 R. Sutcliff Shield Ring iii. 27 A big fat merry-looking karl that could put an arrow through a gore-crow's head at three hundred paces.
1980 Newsweek (Nexis) 3 Nov. 79 Carol Vaness and RoseMarie Freni were the merry-voiced wives.
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