单词 | swine-faced |
释义 | > as lemmasswine-faced swine-faced adj. (also †swine's-faced) having a face likened to that of a pig; cf. swine face n. ΚΠ 1595 ‘Oliver Oat-meale’ Enq. Tripe-wife Eglogue sig. A4 The pudding house, Where swine facde beautie onely sate in pride. 1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. V4 Two or three sturdie Plow men (such as his swines fac't blue-coate was). 1653 Ad Populum sig. A2v Grant her the swine fac'd Lady, else so big, I must not thinke she was so huge with pig. 1857 J. S. Blackie Lays & Legends Anc. Greece 304 O heavens! so fair a fane, and such a crew Of swine-faced mummers, fleshy, fat, and red. 1915 Ld. Dunsany Fifty-one Tales 97 I had from a friend an old outlandish stone, a little swine-faced idol to whom no one prayed. 2008 C. Paolini Brisingr 518 Where is your manhood, you deformed maggots, you bilious, swine-faced murderers? < as lemmas |
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