单词 | bible-back |
释义 | bible-backn. U.S. and dialect. A humpbacked or round-shouldered person. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.1857 |
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