单词 | silly-bold |
释义 | > as lemmassilly-bold C1. Adverbial or parasynthetic, forming adjectives, as silly-bold, silly-mad, silly-mild, silly-faced, silly-titled, etc. ΚΠ 1593 W. Shakespeare Venus & Adonis sig. H It [sc. love] shall be raging mad, and sillie milde. View more context for this quotation a1658 J. Durham Blessednesse of Death (1681) Ep. Ded. sig. **v Shall we look on the great multituds of Protestants..as a company of silly-pated ridiculs, rather to be pitied then as paterns to be imitated? 1760 R. James Canine Madness 186 The reason of which was owing to his [sc. a sheep-dog's] being what we vulgarly call silly mad. 1807 A. Seward Lett. (1811) VI. 388 A few extracts from the silly-titled poem Epics of the Ton. a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Silly-bold, impertinently and unbecomingly free; assuming unseemly airs. 1903 R. Gower Rec. & Reminisc. 258 Silly-faced Charles X in the same apparel. 1987 R. Curtis & B. Elton Blackadder the Third in R. Curtis et al. Blackadder: Whole Damn Dynasty (1998) 245/1 (stage direct) Silly-dressed man blows a kazoo and laughs. No one else does. 2000 T. Hawks Playing Moldovans at Tennis xv. 189 In the foyer I saw that Grigorii Corzun was in conversation with two silly-hatted men. < as lemmas |
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