| 单词 | white-headed boy |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswhite-headed boy white-headed boy n. a man or boy who is highly regarded or favoured; a pet, a darling; cf. white boy n. 1 and white-haired boy n. at white-haired adj. Compounds. ΚΠ 1616 J. Deacon Tobacco Tortured 74 Wilt thou now let me thy white-headed boy runne barefoote and barelegged without hose and shooes? 1785 J. O'Keeffe Peeping Tom of Coventry ii. 29 My Mammy she call'd me a white headed boy, Because with the girls I lik'd for to toy. 1820 C. R. Maturin Melmoth I. i. 13 He was always her whiteheaded boy, she said,—(imprimis, his hair was as black as jet). 1894 H. Caine Manxman ii. xi. 85 He was always my white-headed boy, and I stuck to him with life. 2009 Irish Times (Nexis) 21 Nov. (Weekend section) 12 A white-headed boy gone bad. < as lemmas |
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