| 单词 | sucking dove |
| 释义 | > as lemmassucking dove b. Of a bird: That is still with its mother. Now chiefly in sucking dove, echoed from Shaks. (see quot. 1600); also attributive.Cf. dialect sucking duck, gander, turkey, used figuratively = simpleton. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > young bird > [adjective] green1506 sucking1600 1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream i. ii. 77 I will aggrauate my voice so, that I wil roare you as gently, as any sucking doue. View more context for this quotation 1634 Althorp MS in J. N. Simpkinson Washingtons (1860) App. p. xxii For 5 dozen and 1 sucking chickinges at 2d. ob the chick, 00 12 03ob. 1821 W. Scott Kenilworth II. xii. 299 He never had so much [sc. brains] as would make pap to a sucking gosling. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. i. iv. 37 Some loud as the lion; some small as the sucking dove. 1846 C. G. F. Gore Sketches Eng. Char. (1852) 157 From the sucking-dove eloquence of Private Secretaryship, he suddenly thundered into a Boanerges! 1858 A. Trollope Dr. Thorne II. xii. 229 No young sucking dove could have been more mild than that terrible enemy whom she had for years regarded as being too puissant for attack. < as lemmas |
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