单词 | red-nosed |
释义 | red-nosedadj. 1. That has a red nose, esp. as a result of drinking. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > skin > complexion > redness > [adjective] > of nose red-nosed1498 red nose1589 pot-tipped1638 1498 Maldon (Essex) Court Rolls (Bundle 57, No. 1v) Lepers and rednosed hoores. a1578 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) I. 162 Ane man..braid faceit, raid nossit, great eyit. 1599 J. Weever Epigrammes sig. Gv Foule red nosde Rufus, fauour thou maist gaine, If with his children thou would take some paine. 1607 E. Sharpham Fleire ii. D Shall we haue red-nos'd Corporals here? 1666 S. Pepys Diary 6 June (1972) VII. 152 A long red-nosed silly jade. 1715 C. Johnson Country Lasses iii. 34 How terribly they belch'd out Oaths, my Lord... Did you observe the Whiskers of the red-nosed Fellow? 1782 ‘P. Pindar’ Lyric Odes to Royal Academicians iv. 8 Old red-nos'd Wilson's art. 1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop ii. xlvi. 50 The doctor..was a red-nosed gentleman. 1894 H. Nisbet Bush Girl's Romance 28 A slenderly-built, red-nosed and dyspeptic patrician he was. 1912 F. B. Money-Coutts Egypt & Other Poems 92 She is very shrill, is Judy, and has very little sense, So the red-nosed rascal batters her and beats her from her senses. 1939 R. L. May (title) Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer. 1970 P. Berton National Dream i. ii. 23 He was a red-nosed toper. 2008 Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Nexis) 3 May On several boats, red-nosed clowns with frizzy, rainbow-colored wigs danced. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > root vegetable > [adjective] > potato > qualities of red-nosed1784 mealy1795 1784 J. Abercrombie Propagation & Bot. Arrangem. Plants & Trees I. 294 Large white oblong red-ended potatoe, called red-nosed kidney. 1809 R. Kerr Gen. View Agric. County of Berwick 291 The long kidney shaped white potatoe, with a dash of red at one end, called red-nebs, or red-nosed kidneys. b. Of an animal: having a red bill, snout, or other prominent part likened to a nose. ΚΠ 1821 J. Latham Gen. Hist. Birds I. 201 Red-Nosed Falcon... Inhabits Senegal. 1862 H. Kingsley Ravenshoe II. xxii. 261 Here's the rid-nosed oysther of Carlingford. 1948 Amer. Midland Naturalist 40 620 This interesting species [sc. Photaliotes nebrascensis], known as the ‘Red-nosed Grasshopper’, has an extensive distribution over the Great Plains. 1975 G. Vevers tr. K. Paysan Aquarium Fishes 116 Red-nosed Tetra. A lively and hardy shoaling fish, up to 7cm long, which prefers the middle water layers. 1993 Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 106 1 One of these [names], didelphoides, is the oldest name for the red-nosed tree rats currently known as Makalata armata. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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