单词 | moccasined |
释义 | moccasinedadj. 1. Wearing or provided with moccasins. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [adjective] > wearing footwear > wearing shoes > wearing shoes made from specific material row-footeda1398 rough-foota1425 rough-footed?a1501 wooden-footed1670 moccasined1829 saboted1862 row-foot1896 suede-shoed1936 suede-footed1938 1829 J. F. Cooper Borderers III. iii. 98 The two chiefs left the piazza in the noiseless manner of the moccasined foot. 1851 M. Reid Scalp Hunters I. i. 7 This region is only trodden by the mocassoned foot of the hunter. 1895 K. Grahame Golden Age 3 A prairie studded with herds of buffalo, which it was our delight, moccasined and tomahawked, to ride down. 1903 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Apr. 497/2 Her moccasined feet, tucked into wide wooden stirrups. 1951 I. Shaw Troubled Air viii. 138 Moving a moccasined foot gently back and forth. 1988 L. Hutcheon Canad. Postmodern ii. 40 Edith's Isis speech.., an important (and untranslated) Greek text, echoed later by the blonde, moccasined girl in the car at the end of the novel. ΚΠ 1859 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 2) Moccasoned, intoxicated. South Carolina. 1872 M. S. De Vere Americanisms 35 In the South a man made drunk by bad liquor is said to have been ‘bitten by the [moccasin] snake’, or simply to be mocassined. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1829 |
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