单词 | verminate |
释义 | verminatev. rare. 1. intransitive. To breed or produce parasitic vermin. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > by nature > [verb (intransitive)] > breed or produce parasitic vermin verminate1693 1693 T. P. Blount Nat. Hist. 263 He having taken extraordinary care and pains to observe, that always on the Flesh, before it did Verminate, there sate Flies of the self same kind with those that were afterwards produc'd thence. 1721 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. To Verminate, to breed Worms. 1912 D. Crawford Thinking Black xxii. 441 Here, then, we see them [sc. people] crowding and verminating in their filth. ΚΠ 1721 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. To Verminate (among Physicians), to have a griping or wringing in the Belly; to..void Worms. Derivatives ˈverminating n. (used attributive) and adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > baseness > [adjective] theowlikec1175 wickc1175 wretcha1200 lechera1300 vilea1300 feeblea1325 brothely1330 caitiffa1400 roinousa1425 basec1450 harlotry1486 filthy1533 brockish1546 vild1568 tinkerly?1576 scabbed?1577 miscreant1593 unnoble1593 slavish1597 rascally1600 roguish1601 sordidous1602 facinoriousa1616 scullion1658 dirty1670 shabbed1674 shabby1679 scoundrel1681 scabby1712 verminating1720 small1824 low-down1865 verminiferous1895 ragtime1917 ribby1936 raunchy1937 scungy1966 the world > animals > animal body > general parts > sexual organs and reproduction > [adjective] > producing vermin verminous1666 verminating1720 vermiparous1860 the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > infestation by noxious creatures > [adjective] > producing vermin verminating1720 verminiferous1895 1720 Bibliotheca Biblica I. 152 The Seed of the Serpent, and its Verminating Principle. 1856 G. H. Boker Leonor de Guzman ii. i, in Plays & Poems I. 260 Out, thou flea-bitten, verminating rogue! 1912 D. Crawford Thinking Black vi. 97 Their average beehive hut is a verminating hole, a den of disease. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < v.1693 |
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