单词 | to blow into one's ear |
释义 | > as lemmasto blow into one's ear ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > boasting or boastfulness > utter boastfully [verb (transitive)] avauntc1374 blowc1380 brag1627 vaunt1633 vapour1658 to blow one's own trumpet1854 woof1934 society > communication > information > action of informing > information [phrase] > whisper (something) privily to blow into one's ear1652 c1380 J. Wyclif Three Treat. i. 69 Censuris þat þe fend bloweþ (as ben suspendis and interdicyngis). c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 5421 Þan wax þe Amyral glad..& gan to blowe bost. c1440 W. Hylton Scala Perfeccionis (1494) ii. xlii Blowynge psalmes & louynges to Jhesu. 1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) iv. 122 The gret bost that it [sc. pryde] blawis. c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 30 That samyn sound as thay beystis hed blauen. 1564 T. Becon New Catech. in Catech. & Other Pieces (1844) 344 He blowed out many furious and unseemly words. 1642 T. Taylor God's Judgem. i. i. xii. 35 Threats were blowne out on every side against the Faithful. 1652 C. Cotterell tr. G. de Costes de La Calprenède Cassandra (1676) iv. 61 These things which malitious Roxana blew into Statira's ears. < as lemmas |
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