单词 | pugnacious |
释义 | pugnaciousadj. Eager or quick to quarrel or fight; given to fighting or arguing; belligerent, contentious. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > dissent > quarrel or quarrelling > [adjective] > quarrelsome sakfulc1000 strifefula1382 litigiousc1384 barratous1430 tuilyier-like1444 mellyvousc1450 toilousc1450 debatous1483 debatefula1492 sturtinga1500 squaringc1530 striving1530 contentious1533 factious1533 quarrellous?1567 quarrelsome1576 bateful1582 mutinous1589 discordful1596 tuilyiesomec1598 brabbling1603 bangling1615 brangling1621 rixosous1623 pugnacious1642 stickling1642 pugnatory1656 litigiose1677 vitilitigious1683 fire-eating1811 wranglesome1817 vitilitigating1819 combativea1834 brawlsome1845 battlesome1877 fighty1888 scrappy1895 tasty1974 society > society and the community > dissent > fighting > [adjective] > fond of fighting battailousc1380 battaillerousc1480 light-fingered1557 rixosous1623 stavinga1625 pugnacious1642 milling1811 fighty1888 1642 H. More Ψυχωδια Platonica sig. P3v Plato affirms Idees; But Aristotle with his pugnacious race As idle figments stifly them denies. 1699 J. Potter Archæologiæ Græcæ II. iii. i. 3 They were the most pugnacious and insupportable of Mankind. 1722 W. Wollaston Relig. of Nature vii. 146 Some men are naturally..thievish, pugnacious, rabid. 1776 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (ed. 4, octavo) I. ii. 388 [The whitethroat] a shy and wild bird..; seems of a pugnatious disposition. 1832 Fraser's Mag. 5 696 That most pugnacious..of universities. 1877 M. Oliphant Makers of Florence (ed. 2) i. 10 These pugnacious Florentines, whose personal feuds and hatreds..were infinitely more real and vivid. 1939 R. G. Collingwood Autobiogr. iii. 19 He was a fiery, pugnacious little man with a passion for controversy. 1952 G. F. Hervey & J. Hems Freshwater Trop. Aquarium Fishes 276 Members of this genus are pugnacious by nature, incorrigible fin-nippers, and not particularly attractive in appearance. 2001 J. Aykroyd in ‘R. Crompton’ Family Roundabout p. v Richmal Crompton..is famously the creatrix of William: scruffy, pugnacious anti-hero of 345 stories for children. Derivatives pugˈnaciously adv. in a pugnacious way or manner. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > dissent > fighting > [adverb] fightingly1632 pugnaciously1836 society > society and the community > dissent > quarrel or quarrelling > [adverb] > quarrelsomely contentiously1548 brabblingly1564 quarrellously1580 litigiously1608 fightingly1632 quarrelsomely1648 pugnaciously1836 combatively1863 1836 Times 3 June 6/7 Those who are pugnaciously disposed, may be entertained with a gipsey fight. 1871 E. P. Whipple Success & its Conditions 69 A politician weakly and amiably in the right is no match for [one] tenaciously and pugnaciously in the wrong. 1986 New Yorker 7 July 64/3 It is also split over how pugnaciously to talk about its goal in Nicaragua and to go after opponents of its policy. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1642 |
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