单词 | scarabee |
释义 | scarabeen. archaic. a. = scarab n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Lamellicornia Scarabaeoidea > family Scarabaeidae > member of genus Ateuchus scarab1579 scarabee1591 pilulary1661 spring beetle1799 pill chafer1804 1591 E. Spenser Visions of Worlds Vanitie in Complaints iv The kingly Bird, that beares Joves thunder-clap, One day did scorne the simple Scarabee. 1599 M. Drayton Idea in Englands Heroicall Epist. (new ed.) sig. Q v Vnto my pitch no common iudgement flies, I scorne all earthlie dung-bred scarabies. 1665 M. Nedham Medela Medicinæ 197 Horses generate Wasps and Scarabees. 1820 P. B. Shelley Œdipus Tyrannus i. 16 The beast Has a loud trumpet like the Scarabee. b. transferred and figurative. = scarab n. 1b. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > inferior person > [noun] > as abused > male bitch-sonc1330 whoresonc1330 bitcha1475 haga1529 conger1600 scarab1602 whore1609 scarabee1615 conger-head1630 bugger1694 sod?1835 1615 R. Brathwait Strappado 102 Let mee vnrippe my sorrowes, that my brest May void such Scarabees, that vse to sit Vpon each vlcer. 1677 2nd Pacquet Advices to Men of Shaftesbury 15 Some few Scarabees of the Law. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1591 |
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