单词 | sickener |
释义 | sickenern. a. Something which nauseates or disgusts; an overdose or excess of anything; a sickening experience. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > excessive amount or degree > [noun] > excess, redundancy, or superfluity > excessive quantity or amount overchargea1325 outrakea1400 surcharge1603 superflux1608 overquantitya1626 overflux1633 gluta1652 overdose1700 excresce1707 overseta1715 embarras de richesse1750 sickener1809 embarras de choix1825 richesse1875 basinful1935 the mind > emotion > hatred > dislike > disgust > [noun] > something which disgusts slime1585 ipecacuanhaa1763 nastiness1831 sickener1853 disgustant1866 muck1882 pig's breakfast1933 ick1947 yuck1966 merde1968 scuzz1968 turn-off1975 put-off1977 1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas II. v. i. 287 A fricassee, and..soup,..greasy with mutton fat, were enough to have given a sickener to the inveterate stomachs of a regiment. 1853 W. Jerdan Autobiogr. IV. xvi. 306 This was indeed a sickener to a careful biographer. 1882 G. MacDonald Weighed & Wanting II. v. 51 A vision of the kind of creature he was capable of loving..would have been—to use a low but expressive phrase—a sickener to her. b. Used of a shot or blow. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific degree of force > [noun] > a severe blow > sickening sickener1834 1834 P. Hawker Diary (1893) II. 54 I gave him such a sickener with the first barrel that I made him haul his wind. 1895 G. Meredith Amazing Marriage I. xvi. 185 Kit fetched his man an ugly stroke on the round of the waist behind.., a sickener of a stroke, if dealt soundly. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1809 |
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