单词 | to fork the fingers |
释义 | > as lemmasto fork the fingers 3. transitive. To make or put into the form of a fork; to make fork-shaped. †to fork the fingers: to extend them towards a person as a mark of contempt. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > think or behave contemptuously [verb (intransitive)] > express contempt by gesture scrape1561 to fork the fingers1640 to cock one's nose (up)1692 to look down one's nose (at)1721 to do a Harvey Smith1973 the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > two > division into two > divide in two [verb (transitive)] > bifurcate bifurcate1615 fork1640 1640 Wits Recreations sig. C2 His wife..Behind him forks her fingers. 1668 N. Culpeper & A. Cole tr. T. Bartholin Anat. (new ed.) i. viii. 315 The Ramus Iliacus is forked out on each side. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VII. 348 The tail..is forked into two horns. 1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art I. 376 A lever..which is forked at the lower part to receive the pendulum. 1816 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Canto III xcv. 52 The mightiest of the storms..through these parted hills hath fork'd His lightnings. 1817 S. T. Coleridge Biogr. Lit. 289 Bertram..stands..with his lower limbs forked. < as lemmas |
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