单词 | owlism |
释义 | owlismn. rare. Behaviour characteristic or typical of owls; (also) an instance of this, a trait or habit characteristic of an owl. ΚΠ 1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present ii. xvii. 178 Lawyers too were poets, were heroes..Their Owlisms, Vulturisms..will disappear by and by, their Heroisms only remaining. 1999 Re: DSPS in alt.support.sleep-disorder (Usenet newsgroup) 8 Feb. Almost everyone else went home by 5pm and I could work without being interrupted from then on. As you can see, I was handling my owl-ism by just working with it. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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