| 单词 | terrible turk |
| 释义 | > as lemmasterrible Turk a. (Applied to) any one having qualities historically attributed to Turks; a cruel, rigorous, or tyrannical person; any one behaving barbarically or savagely. Also: a bad-tempered or unmanageable person; a man who treats his wife harshly. Often (with alliterative qualification) terrible Turk; (also) Young Turk n. 1, an unmanageable or violent child or youth. little Turk: see little adj., pron., n., and adv. Compounds 1d. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > savagery > savage person > [noun] wolfa900 liona1225 beastc1225 wild manc1290 tiger?a1513 Turk1536 club-fist1575 scourgemutton1581 wolver1593 vulture1605 savage1609 inhuman1653 brutal1655 Tartar1669 hyena1671 dragoon1712 Huna1744 panther1822 society > authority > rule or government > oppression > [noun] > tyranny, despotism, or autocracy > one who tyrantc1290 Turk1536 Pharaoh1565 tyrannizer1602 domineerer1641 Corsican1739 Napoleon1821 Ozymandias1878 big-sticker1905 Mussolini1926 Hitler1930 the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > ill-treatment > cruelty > [noun] > person wolfa900 cruelc1420 Turk1536 scourgemutton1581 savage1609 hell-kitea1616 1536 Exhort. North 56 in F. J. Furnivall Ballads from MSS I. 306 Thes Sothorne turkes pervertyng owre lawe. 1578 J. Lyly Euphues f. 5v Was neuer any Impe so wicked & barbarous, any Turke so vile and brutish. 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Turk, any cruel hard-hearted Man. a1845 T. Hood Lay Real Life v Who said my mother was a Turk, And took me home—and made me work, But managed half my meals to shirk? My Aunt. 1847 A. Helps Friends in Council 1st Ser. vii. 114 Why you Mahometan, you Turk of a lawyer—would you do away with all the higher things of courtesy, tenderness for the weaker [etc.]? 1854 Notes & Queries 1st Ser. 9 451/1 We often hear of people bad to manage being ‘regular Turks’. 1862 Spectator 6 Dec. 1363/1 The new generation of Greeks have a real passion for education; without it they say a man is a ‘Turk’, that last epithet of opprobrium. 1863 W. P. Frith Let. 8 Nov. in Autobiogr. (1887) I. xxiv. 351 As to Prince William of Prussia, of all the little Turks he is one of the worst. 1874 Sir W. W. Hunter in Life (1901) xiii. 228 Mr. Lyall is a terrible Turk at keeping his wife up to her social duties. 1875 A. Mozley Ess. fr. Blackwood 217 A bad temper does seem often favourable to health. The man who has been a Turk all his life lives long to plague all about him. 1891 G. Meredith One of our Conquerors III. i. 7 The tastes of the civilized man—a creature that is not clean-washed of the Turk in him. 1904 Police Magistrate in Daily News 26 Nov. 9/2 ‘You are a young Turk, and a bad Turk, too;..I think I ought to send you to a reformatory school.’ < as lemmas |
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