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单词 stark mad
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stark mad
a. Modifying an adjective, esp. in stark mad; also (Nautical) stark calm. See also stark blind adj., stark dead adj., stark naked adj. and n., stark naught adj. and n.Recorded earliest in stark dead adj. and stark naked adj. (in origin an alteration of start naked adj.), and slightly later also in stark blind adj. (probably in origin an alteration of star-blind adj.1). In stark dead adj., stark perhaps originally had connotations of sense A. 5.The adverb is often hyphenated with the following adjective, esp. when used attributively.
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c1390 (?c1350) Joseph of Arimathie (1871) l. 567 [He] Baar him doun of his hors and..strok him stark ded þat he sturede neuere.
c1489 J. Skelton Dethe Erle of Northumberlande l. 50 in Poet. Wks. (1843) I. 8 I say, ye comoners, why wer ye so stark mad?
1561 J. Daus tr. H. Bullinger Hundred Serm. vpon Apocalips xli. 274 Our religion is true, and yours starke false.
1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 63 They forced them sometimes to drincke wine..till they had made them starke drunke.
1593 G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation 150 Iwis hee mought haue spied a difference..betwene raging, and starke-madd.
c1595 Capt. Wyatt in G. F. Warner Voy. R. Dudley to W. Indies (1899) 52 Havinge somtimes most soden gustes and againe in a moment beinge starke becalmed.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) iii. ii. 53 His horse..starke spoyl'd with the Staggers. View more context for this quotation
1624 J. Smith Gen. Hist. Virginia v. 182 In the evening it grew starke calme.
1661 S. Pepys Diary 23 Apr. (1970) II. 87 We drank the King's health..till one of the genlemen fell down stark drunk and there lay.
1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 21 Going a fishing in a stark calm Morning.
a1721 M. Prior Cromwell & Porter in Wks. (1907) II. 281 You may study among the Law givers without being stark wild about Ordinances and Proclamations.
1764 Dialogue containing Refl. 3 Puh! Puh! Puh! Mad indeed! Quite mad! Stark mad! What in the name of the D—l have we to do with Cato's, Sempronies's, or Syphax's.
1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian v, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. I. 130 But every body was, for the moment, stark-mad on the subject of Porteous.
1823 W. Scoresby Jrnl. Voy. Northern Whale-fishery 390 It fell stark calm.
1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise: Pt. III 45 And, stark awake, with beating heart He put the hawthorn twigs apart.
1927 Albuquerque (New Mexico) Jrnl. 23 June 2/4 Ward's finish at the eighteenth hole, which denoted the exit of the champion, drove the gallery stark wild.
1988 A. Tyler Breathing Lessons (1989) ii. 139 The car is setting stark still.
2011 Wales on Sunday (Nexis) 30 Oct. 16 Just because a woman looks as though she shares her home with loads of cats, it doesn't necessarily mean she's stark mad.
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