| 单词 | nether person |
| 释义 | > as lemmasnether person b. Of the (usually human) body: lower; of or belonging to the lower or bottom part; esp. in nether garment, nether man, nether person.nether garments is usually taken to refer specifically and euphemistically to underwear. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > limb > leg > [noun] shanka900 legc1300 grainsa1400 limbc1400 foot?a1425 stumpa1500 pin?1515 pestlea1529 boughc1550 stamp1567 understander1583 pile1584 supporters1601 walker?1611 trestle1612 fetlock1645 pedestal1695 drumstick1770 gam1785 timber1807 tram1808–18 fork1812 prop1817 nethers1822 forkals1828 understanding1828 stick1830 nether person1835 locomotive1836 nether man1846 underpinning1848 bender1849 Scotch peg1857 Scotch1859 under-pinner1859 stem1860 Coryate's compasses1864 peg1891 wheel1927 shaft1935 a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) ii. 179 Þe ouer lymes gouerneþ and ȝeueþ; þe neþer [?a1475 anon. tr. inferialle; L. inferiora] lymmes bereþ and serueþ. 1522 J. Skelton Why come ye nat to Courte 1197 Lest he..make hym lame of his neder limmes. 1641 in Sc. Hist. Rev. 9 364 England Warr'd Ireland in wearing of trewes: For Ireland but weares them on their nether parts. 1651 T. Randolph et al. Hey for Honesty iii. i. 21/1 By these good stampers, upper and neather duds; Ile nip from Ruffmans of the Harmanbeck. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ii. 784 All my nether shape thus grew Transform'd. View more context for this quotation 1762 W. Falconer Shipwreck i, in Poet. Wks. (1796) 28 Now, seen on ocean's utmost verge to swim, He sweeps it vibrant with his nether limb. 1834 C. Brontë in L. Gordon Charlotte Brontë (1995) ii. 32 His figure, too, though diminutive was perfectly symmetrical, and of this he seemed not unconscious, from the frequent and complacent looks he cast down on his nether man. 1835 J. P. Kennedy Horse-shoe Robinson I. xvi. 307 His nether person was rendered conspicuous by a pair of dingy small clothes. 1836 F. Marryat Japhet I. i. 4 Long before the old porter could pull his legs through his nether garments. 1846 C. G. F. Gore Sketches Eng. Char. (1852) 151 We found a still idler fellow..warming his nether-man on the hearth-rug. 1847 S. C. Reid Scouting Exped. McCulloch's Texas Rangers xii. 116 A third was sitting up mending his chaparral-torn unmentionables... He of our mess having finished repairing his nether garment ‘by the light of the moon’, we all dropped off to sleep. 1863 A. Marsh Heathside Farm I. 28 Whose nether man was generally cased in brown spats (Anglice gaiters). 1915 W. S. Maugham Of Human Bondage lix. 303 She scented indecency everywhere; she never spoke of trousers but referred to them as nether garments. 1969 B. Malamud Pictures of Fidelman (1972) v. 109 The stranger's nether limbs, clothed in coarse black stockings. 1993 Clothes Show Mag. Feb. 93 89/2 There have been as many names for knickers over the years as there are styles available in the shops... small clothes; nether garments; long johns, [etc.]. < as lemmas |
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