| 单词 | boneless wonder |
| 释义 | > as lemmasboneless wonder d. A marvellous specimen or example (of something); in Scottish used contemptuously. boneless wonder, a gymnast; figurative, someone or something lacking ‘backbone’; chinless wonder: see chinless wonder at chinless adj. b. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > quality of inspiring wonder > [noun] > instance or example of miraclea1393 stupora1398 prodigy1595 wonderment1606 wonder1721 marvela1785 the mind > emotion > fear > cowardice or pusillanimity > [noun] > coward(s) coward?a1289 hen-hearta1450 staniel?a1500 pigeon?1571 cow1581 quake-breech1584 cow-baby1594 custard1598 chicken heart1602 nidget1605 hen?1613 faintling1614 white-liver1614 chickena1616 quake-buttocka1627 skitterbrooka1652 dunghill1761 cow-heart1768 shy-cock1768 fugie1777 slag1788 man of chaff1799 fainter1826 possum1833 cowardy, cowardy, custard1836 sheep1840 white feather1857 funk1859 funkstick1860 lily-liver1860 faint-heart1870 willy boy1895 blert1905 squib1908 fraid cat (also fraidy cat)c1910–23 manso1912 feartie1923 yellowbelly1927 chicken liver1930 boneless wonder1931 scaredy-cat1933 sook1933 pantywaist1935 punk1939 ringtail1941 chickenshit1945 candy-ass1953 pansy-ass1963 unbrave1981 bottler1994 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > gymnastics > [noun] > gymnast gymnast1594 turner1854 gymnasiast1857 boneless wonder1931 1721 R. Bradley Philos. Acct. Wks. Nature 182 In this Wonder of a Garden there is neither Grass-work nor Gravel. 1786 R. Burns Twa Dogs ix, in Poems 12 Our Whipper-in, wee, blastet wonner, Poor, worthless elf. 1855 C. Kingsley Westward Ho! xxiii But surely she was a very wonder of beauty! 1898 Atlantic Monthly 82 499/2 It was a wonder of beauty,..the fairest piece of earth my eye ever rested upon. 1931 W. S. Churchill in Hansard Commons 28 Jan. 1022 I remember, when I was a child, being taken to the celebrated Barnum's Circus... The exhibit on the programme which I most desired to see was the one described as ‘The Boneless Wonder’. My parents judged that that spectacle would be too revolting and demoralising for my youthful eyes, and I have waited 50 years to see the boneless wonder sitting on the Treasury Bench. 1946 Scrutiny XIV. i. 67 The tradition of Chattertonian boy wonders. 1951 ‘J. Tey’ Daughter of Time xiv. 186 The spectacle of Dr. Gairdner trying to make his facts fit his theory was the most entertaining thing in gymnastics that Grant had witnessed... As a contortionist Dr. Gairdner was the original boneless wonder. 1963 Guardian 15 Feb. 20/6 One of those boneless wonders that go by the name of ‘Observer’ editorials. 1967 M. Shulman Kill 3 iv. ii. 168 Reconciling more contradictory positions than could be broken up by a boneless wonder on a trapeze. < as lemmas |
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