| 单词 | to squeal like a stuck pig |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto squeal like a stuck pig 1. Of an animal, esp. a pig: that has had a knife thrust into its neck; that has been stuck (stick v.1 1c); = sticked adj.1 1. Chiefly in similative phrases as to bleed like a stuck pig, to stare like a stuck pig, to squeal like a stuck pig, etc. (cf. to stare like a (dead) pig at pig n.1 Phrases 7). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > [adjective] > thin or weak > injured stuck1671 the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > see [verb (intransitive)] > stare or gaze stareOE gawc1175 darea1225 porec1300 muse1340 glowc1374 gogglec1380 gazec1386 glore?a1400 glopc1400 govec1480 glower?a1513 gowk1513 daze1523 amuse1532 glew1587 to feed one's eyes1590 to seek, buy, or sow gape-seed1598 to shoot one's eyes1602 glazea1616 stargaze1639 gaum1691 to stare like a stuck pig1702 ygaze1737 gawk1785 to feed one's sight1813 gloze1853 glow1856 the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > feel wonder, be amazed [verb (intransitive)] > gaze in wonder gaurec1374 starea1375 gape1377 to stare like a stuck pig1702 gawp1728 1671 Bp. S. Parker Def. Eccl. Politie 415 Like some Creatures (you may wot of) that if they may not have their will in every trifle, will roar and bellow like a stuck Ox. 1702 T. Yalden Æsop at Court iii. 11 Like a Stuck Pig the Woman star'd. ?1746 J. Symmonds Wandsworth Campaign 31 To the North repair with Race-Horse Speed, There, like stuck Oxen, make the Rebels bleed. 1753 Whole Duty of Woman xx. 48 The roaring of the stuck swine exciteth not our pity. 1782 F. Burney Cecilia I. ii. i. 161 Ask for the rent-roll,—see how they'll look! stare like stuck pigs! 1812 Sporting Mag. 40 66 Bleeding like a stuck pig. 1847 Godey's Lady's Bk. Feb. 98/1 He squealed like a stuck pig as I forced him against a tree, and begged for mercy. 1854 T. B. Thorpe Hive of ‘Bee-Hunter’ 264 A grunt that would have done honor to a stuck pig was heard. 1916 Harper's Monthly Mag. 1 June 819/2 I knew I knew you; that was why I stood and stared like a stuck pig. 1934 L. Charteris Boodle vi. 136 Squealing like a stuck pig, Sir Melvin Flager tore the lorry back on to its course. 1992 G. Vanderhaeghe Things as they Are? 32 His mother told him that he had screamed bloody blue murder, screamed like a stuck pig. 2004 R. A. Posner in C. R. Sunstein & M. C. Nussbaum Animal Rights ii. 69 The logical implication of his philosophy that if a stuck pig experiences more pain than a stuck human, the pig has the superior claim to our solicitude. 2015 Daily Mail (Nexis) 6 June The vested interests will squeal like stuck pigs, of course. < as lemmas |
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