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单词 bible-back
释义

bible-backn.

Etymology: Bible n.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈbible-back.
U.S. and dialect.
A humpbacked or round-shouldered person.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > deformity > deformities of specific parts > [noun] > hump back > person
crouchbackc1491
crook-backa1513
urchin1528
lord1653
crump-backa1661
crump1698
hump1708
humpback1712
hunchback1712
crumple-back1845
bible-back1873
knarl-
1873 G. W. Perrie Buckskin Mose x. 145 Pitching our camp in the Lassen Meadows, at La Due Very's, generally known as Old Bible-back.
1896 G. F. Northall Warwickshire Word-bk. Bible-back, a person with broad, rounded shoulders. ‘Here comes old bibleback!’
1903 Dial. Notes 2 349 Bible-back, Rockland Co. N.Y. Bergen Co. N.J.

Derivatives

bible-backed adj.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > deformity > deformities of specific parts > [adjective] > hump back
hoveredc897
embossedc1430
bow-backed1470
crook-backed1477
courbe-backed1480
bunch-backed1519
hunchbacked1598
buncht-back1603
crouch-backed1606
hulch1611
hulch-backed1611
hulched1611
crouchback1627
camel-backed1631
huck-backed1631
hulchy1632
boss-backed1640
gibbous1646
huckle-backeda1652
hulck-backed1656
hunched1656
crump-backeda1661
humpbacked1681
humped1713
humpback1726
humptya1825
hunchy1841
bible-backed1857
crooked-backed1866
cyphotic1889
1857 Olympia (W.T.) Pioneer & Democrat 11 Dec. We might, in consequence, become somewhat round-shouldered and ‘bible-backed’.
1873 Notes & Queries XII. 227 What kind of shoulders? Rather high. Anything else? He was humpy or bible-backed.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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