单词 | tiger-shooting |
释义 | > as lemmastiger-shooting a. General attributive, as tiger cage, tiger country, tiger-cub, tiger-drive, tiger-hunt, tiger-jungle, tiger-pit (pit n.1 5), tiger-skin, tiger-spring, tiger-stripe, tiger trap; objective and objective genitive, as tiger-hunting, tiger-shooting n. and adj., tiger-slayer. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > savagery > [adjective] grimlyc893 retheeOE grim971 bitterOE bremec1175 grillc1175 grimfula1240 cruel1297 sturdy1297 fiercea1300 fellc1300 boistousa1387 felonousc1386 savagea1393 bestiala1398 bremelya1400 felona1400 hetera1400 cursedc1400 wicked14.. vengeablec1430 wolvishc1430 unnatural?1473 inhuman1481 brutisha1513 cruent1524 felonish1530 mannish1530 abominate1531 lionish1549 boarish?1550 truculent?c1550 unhumanc1550 lion-like1556 beastly1558 orped1567 raw?1573 tigerish?1573 unmanlike1579 boisterous1581 savaged1583 tiger-like1587 yond1590 truculental1593 savage wild1595 tigerous1597 inhumane1598 Neronian1598 immane1599 Phalarical1602 ungentle1603 feral1604 savagious1605 fierceful1607 Dionysian1608 wolvy1611 Hunnish1625 lionly1631 tigerly1633 savage-hearted1639 brutal1641 feroce1641 ferocious1646 asperous1650 ferousa1652 wolfish1674 tiger1763 savage-fierce1770 Tartar1809 Tartarly1821 Neroic1851 tigery1859 Neronic1864 unmannish1867 inhumanitarian1947 1763 J. Bell Trav. from St. Petersburg xi. 162 There appeared two troops of Tartars, clothed in coats of tiger-skins. 1801 Asiatic Ann. Reg. 1800 Misc. Tracts 343/1 Jackets, turbans, and handkerchiefs, marked with the bubberee, or tyger stripe... The tyger stripe was the royal mark, and was peculiar to Tippoo and his family. 1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering II. 58 He had..ridden a-tiger-hunting upon an elephant with the Nabob of Arcot. 1848 tr. W. Hoffmeister Trav. Ceylon & Continental India vii. 244 We remained for several days, on account of a tiger~hunt. 1859 J. Lang Wanderings in India 358 He had enough of tiger~shooting in that one tiger. 1865 T. Seaton From Cadet to Colonel II. 26 There was no tiger-jungle within thirty miles of the spot. 1886 R. Kipling Departm. Ditties (1899) 56 A pet tiger-cub in wreaths of rhubarb leaves, symbolical of India under medical treatment. 1895 Daily News 27 Nov. 6/3 At Shrovetide, 1509,..Princess Mary, afterwards Queen, wore a black mask as an Ethiopian queen, and a little jacket of tigerskin. 1906 Macmillan's Mag. Aug. 778 The spears showed that a tiger-drive was contemplated, for across each, some eighteen inches below the point, a little piece of wood was lashed on at right angles to the shaft. 1931 E. A. Robertson Four Frightened People v. 178 This was tiger country, she knew, but she had never yet seen one of those animals. 1934 M. Mitchell Warning to Wantons x. 324 They were like two big game-hunters whose elaborate tiger-trap has netted..a domestic cat! 1936 T. S. Eliot Coll. Poems 153 The tiger in the tiger-pit Is not more irritable than I. 1970 Daily Progress (Charlottesville, Va.) 8 July 5 a/3 Harkin said more than 200 men, crammed three to five in 86 5-by-8-foot tiger pits in one building, were unable to stand because they had been there so long. 1970 Guardian 8 July 1 (caption) Political prisoners peering up out of a ‘tiger cage’ in Con Son prison in South Vietnam. 1978 ‘M. M. Kaye’ Far Pavilions xxv. 369 Biju Ram would only have had to wait until they were in tiger country—preferably..where there was known to be a man-eater. 1980 N. Freeling Castang's City viii. 47 She was extremely sharp. One kept falling..into tiger traps full of pointed bamboo stakes. One got little out of her. 1982 Times 28 Sept. 3/4 (caption) An apprentice animal trainer, in the tiger cage with six Bengal tigers. < as lemmas |
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