| 单词 | widow-making |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswidow-making C3. Objective. With agent nouns, verbal nouns, and participles, as widow chaser, widow-creating, widow hunter, widow-hunting, widow-making, etc. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > seeking marriage > [noun] > seeking a wife > seeking widow as widow-hunting1631 society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > seeking marriage > [noun] > seeking a wife > seeking widow as > one who widow hunter1714 1631 B. Jonson Bartholmew Fayre i. iii. 5 in Wks. II Sir, but i'faith, would thou wouldst leaue thy exercise of widdow-hunting once! 1657 R. Tomlinson tr. J. de Renou Medicinal Materials i, in Medicinal Dispensatory sig. Nn Mezereon is as much as viduifical, or widow-making Plant. 1714 J. Addison Spectator No. 561. ¶1 Those unhappy Gentlemen who are commonly distinguished by the Name of Widow-hunters. 1849 R. S. Surtees Soapey Sponge's Sporting Tour i, in New Monthly Mag. Jan. 3 With this popular sport he combined the diversion of widow-hunting. 1876 G. M. Hopkins Wreck of Deutschland xiii, in Poems (1967) 55 The widow-making unchilding unfathering deeps. 1909 Collier's 24 July 11/1 ‘Widow-chasers’ is the picturesque trade term by which a certain class of petty swindlers is known. 1926 K. M. Lynch Social Mode Restoration Comedy 172 His gay widow-wooing..occupies no small amount of his time and effort. 1994 Toronto Star (Nexis) 17 Nov. f1 Sometimes..some widow-cheating rat would have to skulk out of town. 1997 A. S. Manji Case for Women's Rights to Land in Tanzania 6 I have come to view AIDS as a ‘widow-creating disease’. < as lemmas |
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