英语词汇“to graft, plant horns on”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

a. [Cuckolds were fancifully said to wear horns on the brow.] to give horns to, to graft, plant horns on: to cuckold. [The origin of this, which appears in so many European languages, and, seemingly, even in late Greek in phrase κέρατα ποιεῖν τινί (Artemidorus, Oneirocritica II. 12) is referred by Dunger ( Germania XXIX. 59) to the practice formerly prevalent of planting or engrafting the spurs of a castrated cock on the root of the excised comb, where they grew and became horns, sometimes of several inches long. He shows that German hahnreh or hahnrei ‘cuckold’, originally meant ‘capon’.]

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to give horns to1430

ox feather1615

knob1658

shoeing-horn1664

Sussex crest1681

horny coronet1688

bull's feather1704

1430–40 J. Lydgate tr. Bochas Fall of Princes (Bodl.) ii. xxiii. lf. 128/1 A certeyn knyht Giges callid..To speke pleyn inglissh made hym a cokold. Alas I was nat auysid weel beforne On~cunnyngli to speke such language; I sholde ha said how that he hadde an horn..As in sum land Cornodo men them call.

?1515 Hyckescorner (de Worde) sig. C.i My moder was a lady of the stewes blode borne And..my fader ware an horne.

?1562 Thersytes sig. C.i Wylte not thou thy hornes in holde Thinkest thou that I am a cockolde [printed cocklode].

1594 T. Lodge & R. Greene Looking Glasse sig. H2 Nay sir, he was a cuckoldly diuell, for he had hornes on his head.

1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing ii. i. 21 God sends a curst cow short hornes.

a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) iv. ii. 18.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) i. ii. 5 Oh that I knewe this Husband, which you say, must change his Hornes with Garlands.

1700 J. Dryden in J. Fletcher & J. Vanbrugh Pilgrim (rev. ed.) Epil. sig. A3 London a fruitful Soil, yet never bore So plentiful a Crop of Horns before.

1728 E. Young Love of Fame: Universal Passion (ed. 2) i. 70 And the brib'd cuckold..glories in his gilded horn.

1796 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) II. 849 On ilka brow she's planted a horn.

1822 W. Scott Fortunes of Nigel III. xi. 320 O what a generous creature is your true London husband!—Horns hath he, but..he goreth not.

1942 D. Powell Time to be Born (1943) i. 24 Julian was almost pathologically jealous of her, fearing the final indignity of horns.

单词	to graft, plant horns on
释义	> as lemmas to graft, plant horns on a. [Cuckolds were fancifully said to wear horns on the brow.] to give horns to, to graft, plant horns on: to cuckold. [The origin of this, which appears in so many European languages, and, seemingly, even in late Greek in phrase κέρατα ποιεῖν τινί (Artemidorus, Oneirocritica II. 12) is referred by Dunger ( Germania XXIX. 59) to the practice formerly prevalent of planting or engrafting the spurs of a castrated cock on the root of the excised comb, where they grew and became horns, sometimes of several inches long. He shows that German hahnreh or hahnrei ‘cuckold’, originally meant ‘capon’.] ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > fornication, adultery, or incest > [noun] > adultery > husband of adulterous wife > symbol of to give horns to1430 ox feather1615 knob1658 shoeing-horn1664 Sussex crest1681 horny coronet1688 bull's feather1704 1430–40 J. Lydgate tr. Bochas Fall of Princes (Bodl.) ii. xxiii. lf. 128/1 A certeyn knyht Giges callid..To speke pleyn inglissh made hym a cokold. Alas I was nat auysid weel beforne On~cunnyngli to speke such language; I sholde ha said how that he hadde an horn..As in sum land Cornodo men them call. ?1515 Hyckescorner (de Worde) sig. C.i My moder was a lady of the stewes blode borne And..my fader ware an horne. ?1562 Thersytes sig. C.i Wylte not thou thy hornes in holde Thinkest thou that I am a cockolde [printed cocklode]. 1594 T. Lodge & R. Greene Looking Glasse sig. H2 Nay sir, he was a cuckoldly diuell, for he had hornes on his head. 1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing ii. i. 21 God sends a curst cow short hornes. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) iv. ii. 18. a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) i. ii. 5 Oh that I knewe this Husband, which you say, must change his Hornes with Garlands. 1700 J. Dryden in J. Fletcher & J. Vanbrugh Pilgrim (rev. ed.) Epil. sig. A3 London a fruitful Soil, yet never bore So plentiful a Crop of Horns before. 1728 E. Young Love of Fame: Universal Passion (ed. 2) i. 70 And the brib'd cuckold..glories in his gilded horn. 1796 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) II. 849 On ilka brow she's planted a horn. 1822 W. Scott Fortunes of Nigel III. xi. 320 O what a generous creature is your true London husband!—Horns hath he, but..he goreth not. 1942 D. Powell Time to be Born (1943) i. 24 Julian was almost pathologically jealous of her, fearing the final indignity of horns. extracted from hornn. < as lemmas
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