| 单词 | nervous-making |
| 释义 | > as lemmasnervous-making C1. Forming adjectival compounds, as †nervous-bilious, nervous-looking, nervous-making, †nervous-minded, etc. ΚΠ 1841 A. Combe Physiol. Digestion (ed. 3) ii. iv. 298 An energetic or excitable temperament, such as the bilious or nervous-bilious. 1846 H. W. Longfellow Jrnl. 9 Apr. in S. Longfellow Life H. W. Longfellow (1886) II. ii. 35 Let us be calm and happy, rather than excitable and nervous-minded. 1855 A. S. Stevens Long Look Ahead 99 The horse was a large, strong-jointed, nervous-looking creature. 1859 Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 1854–8 6 291 The electrical nervous-muscular sensibility of man. 1875 E. M. Hale Materia Medica 494 J. B. McK., merchant, about forty years of age, nervous-bilious temperament. 1939 F. A. Kirkpatrick Latin Amer. xxviii. 345 The author, Francisco Madero, a nervous-looking little man. 1971 K. Awoonor This Earth, my Brother ii. 24 Now and then a man trailed in a pickup, or a nervous-looking undernourished girl who had appeared in his office looking for a job. 1990 Atlantic Nov. 25/3 The latest of them..looks to be Sondheim's most nervous-making project yet. 1996 J. C. Oates We were Mulvaneys 35 A shy frowning nervous-handed boy. < as lemmas |
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