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单词 to make a person's nose swell
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to make a person's nose swell
f. to make a person's nose swell: to make a person jealous or envious; so to have one's nose swell: to be made jealous or envious. Obsolete.
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the mind > emotion > jealousy or envy > be or become jealous or envious [verb (intransitive)] > make one jealous or envious
to make a person's nose swell1675
1675 Town-misses Manifesto (title page) The good Wives were in those Golden days so obedient and well Condition'd, as not to whimper or have their Noses Swell at it.
1743 in T. B. Howell State Trials (1813) XVII. 1187 He heard lord Altham say,..my wife has got a son, which will make my brother's nose swell.
1876 Wellington Jrnl. 5 Feb. 6/5 ‘To make a person's nose swell’, to make him jealous or mistrusting.
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