| 单词 | proud peat |
| 释义 | > as lemmasproud peat a. A conceited or arrogant woman; esp. in proud peat. ΚΠ 1577 N. Breton Wks. Young Wyt f.34 Not puling like a peate, that if her finger ake, Must haue her dinner in her bedde. 1600 B. Jonson Every Man out of his Humor Dram. Pers. sig. Aiiiv Fallace. Deliro's Wife and Idoll, a proud mincing Peat, and as peruerse as hee is officious. a1625 J. Fletcher Wife for Moneth i. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Ffffff4v/2 And ye proud peat, Ile make you curse your insolence. 1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth v, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. II. 164 Ere he [sc. Rothsay] takes back yonder proud peat to his table and his bed,..Douglas must be King of Scotland. 1878 J. H. Stirling Burns in Drama iv. ii. 45 There is the dressy exquisite among them,—and the guzzler,—and the proud peat,—and the birky. 1895 ‘S. Tytler’ Macdonald Lass xii. 164 You were always a proud, undaunted peat of a lass. 1910 C. Fraser Glengonnar 133 The folk aboot the place thocht her a prood peat, and left her very much to hersel'. 1958 R. Graves 5 Pens in Hand 150 I..found a girl..clothed in an elegant two-piece bathing dress and considerable aplomb... I cross-examined the peat. < as lemmas |
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