单词 | white-tongued |
释义 | > as lemmaswhite-tongued white-tongued adj. ΚΠ 1556 J. Olde tr. R. Gwalther Antichrist ii. f. 45 We nede no white tongued wordes, nor groping reasones of flaterers. 1637 S. Rutherford Let. 14 July in Joshua Redivivus (1664) 8 A heavie doom is for the liar and white tongued flatterer. a1745 T. Warton Poems Several Occasions (1748) 178 There tottering Gout , and white-tongu'd Fever stand. 1868 Race for Life xi. 28/2 Now and then the white-tongued lightning darted like an arrowy serpent through the forest branches. 1998 L. Sachar Holes (2010) viii. 41 Looking at one, you would have thought that it should have been named a ‘red-eyed’ lizard, or a ‘black-toothed’ lizard, or perhaps a ‘white-tongued’ lizard. < as lemmas |
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