| 单词 | of a certain description |
| 释义 | > as lemmas(a woman) of a certain description e. Sometimes euphemistically: Which it is not polite or necessary further to define. a certain age: an age when one is no longer young, but which politeness forbids to be specified too minutely: usually, referring to some age between forty and sixty (mostly said of women). Also, (a woman) of a certain description, i.e. of the demi-monde; in a certain condition, pregnant; a certain disease, venereal disease. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > middle-aged person > [noun] > middle age middle lifec1330 middle agec1400 mid-agec1450 middle eldc1450 middle yearsc1450 meridian1607 a certain age1748 mid-life1818 middle term1839 society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [adjective] > unchaste or sexually compliant (of women) strumpeta1382 jadish1573 comingc1576 short heeled1591 loose in the hilts1598 loose-legged1598 loose-tailed1598 light-tailed1600 overscutched1600 stuprous1603 light-skirted1607 brothelly1608 light-heeled1611 wagtailed1648 loose-hilteda1652 feather-heeleda1674 loose-gowneda1717 frank1744 shake-tail1782 (a woman) of a certain description1803 hetaeric1868 round-heeled1926 floozy?1930 trampy1944 slack1951 slaggy1973 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > venereal disease > [noun] bone acheOE burning1382 crinkums1618 bone ague1659 crankum1661 venereal1843 jack1899 Jack-in-the-box1899 V.D.1920 a certain disease1927 social disease1978 the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > pregnancy or gestation > [adjective] greatc1175 with childc1175 with childc1300 baggeda1400 bounda1400 pregnant?a1425 quicka1450 greaterc1480 heavyc1480 teeming1530 great-bellied1533 big1535 boundenc1540 impregnate1540 great-wombeda1550 young with child1566 gravid1598 pregnate1598 pagled1599 enceinte1602 child-great1605 conceived1637 big-bellieda1646 brooding1667 in the (also a) family way1688 in the (also that) way1741 undelivered1799 ensient1818 enwombeda1822 in a delicate condition1827 gestant1851 in pod1890 up the (also a) pole1918 in a particular condition1922 preg?1927 in the spud line1937 up the spout1937 preggy1938 up the stick1941 preggers1942 in pig1945 primigravid1949 preggo1951 in a certain condition1958 gestating1961 up the creek1961 in the (pudding) cluba1966 gravidated- 1748 Lady Fetherstonhaugh in Lady Chatterton Mem. Ld. Gambier (1861) I. ii. 25 Some very handsome ladies of a certain sort, who always make part of his suite. 1754 Connoisseur (1755) No. 44. 261 I could not help wishing on this occasion that some middle term was invented between Miss and Mrs. to be adopted, at a certain age, by all females not inclined to matrimony. 1803 J. Porter Thaddeus of Warsaw xxviii At the epoch, called a certain age, she found herself an old maid. 1803 J. G. Lemaistre Rough Sketch Mod. Paris xiv. 122 Women, too, of a certain description, do not ply for custom. 1803 J. G. Lemaistre Rough Sketch Mod. Paris xxviii. 232 When I first came here, I supposed that these ladies were of a certain description. 1818 Ld. Byron Beppo xxii. 12 She was not old, nor young, nor at the years Which certain people call a ‘certain age’, Which yet the most uncertain age appears. 1823 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto VI lxix. 35 A lady of a ‘certain age’, which means Certainly aged. 1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge i. 230 A very old house, perhaps as old as it claimed to be, and perhaps older, which will sometimes happen with houses of an uncertain, as with ladies of a certain age. 1882 Howells Out of Question His feet are set rather wide apart in the fashion of gentlemen approaching a certain weight. 1927 Rev. Eng. Stud. Oct. 433 As instances may serve lavatory, illegal operation, social evil, a certain disease. 1958 B. Nichols Sweet & Twenties viii. 103 ‘Syphilis’ had always been described as ‘a certain disease’, just as an attempt at rape had been described as ‘a certain suggestion’, and the result of the rape on the lady was described as leaving her in ‘a certain condition’. < as lemmas |
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