单词 | to make like a welshman's hose |
释义 | > as lemmasto make (also turn) (a word, text, etc.) like a Welshman's hose ΚΠ 1559 W. Baldwin et al. Myrroure for Magistrates Tresilian xi And wurds that wer most plaine whan thei by vs wer skande, We turned by construction lyke a welch~mans hose. ?a1600 ( R. Sempill Legend Bischop St. Androis in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xlv. 377 Of omnigatherine now his glose: He maid it lyk a Wealchman hose: Tempora mutantur was his text. < as lemmas |
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