| 单词 | pickled dog |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspickled dog 3. colloquial. Thoroughly imbued with wickedness, mischief, etc.; out-and-out, downright, consummate. Esp. in pickled dog. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > roguery > [adjective] pautenerc1330 palliard1484 limmer?a1513 limmerful?a1513 slovenly?1518 knavish1552 patchingc1555 rascal1566 roguing1566 knaifatic1568 roguish1572 rascally1586 land-loping1587 Scanderbegging1593 cullionly1608 rogorous1609 loseling1624 scoundrel1643 schelmish1654 pickled1683 rapscallionly1699 scoundrelish1705 rapscallion1711 pickle1774 scoundrelly1790 picaresque1822 furciferous1823 scapegrace1830 society > morality > moral evil > wickedness > roguery, knavery, or rascalry > [adjective] > playfully or mischievously roguish pickled1683 pickle1774 hempy1801 impish1834 natkhat1843 puckish1874 gallows1882 gamine1903 1683 R. Dixon Canidia v. iv. 42 The Divels will one day crack their Crowns, Pickled Knaves, as e're wore Gowns. 1691 A. Gavin Frauds Romish Monks (ed. 3) 343 Most impudent and pickel'd youths. 1706 G. Farquhar Recruiting Officer v. vi. 72 His Boy Jack was..a pickled Dog, I shall never forget him. 1727 W. Somerville Fable in Occas. Poems 171 The Goods are stole, but not from thee, Two pickled Rogues well met. 1779 H. B. Dudley Flitch of Bacon i. 14 Kil. He seems a pickled kind of a fellow. Maj. Pickled!—I'll pickle him, a dog, I warrant you. 1806 T. Holcroft Vindictive Man iii. i. 31 Damned good story; show me off;..talked of by every body: That's he! There he goes! The deep one! The pickled dog! 1839 R. Dawes Nicx's Mate I. iii. 77 ‘I've heard of that man in England.’ ‘A pickled scamp—hic! that fellow,’ said Classon with great bitterness. 1864 A. B. Longstreet Master William Mitten iii. 34 My advice to you is, to have nothing to do with this man. If he is not a pickled villain, I'll give you my head for a foot-ball. 1909 J. R. Ware Passing Eng. Victorian Era 195/2 Pickled dog (Provincial), term of contempt—rarely now heard. 1931 A. J. Cronin Hatter's Castle ii. ix. 368 Did you see that shot of mine, cocky?.. It was a—a regular nor'easter—a pickled ripsnorter. 1994 Scotsman (Nexis) 7 Dec. 16 Two years ago, fearing a pickled-dog approach to the project, a frothing partisan rose to point the finger at the incomer of 20 miles away. < as lemmas |
| 随便看 |
|
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。