Falconry. The crop of a hawk. to bear full gorge: to be full fed. Hence, in opprobrious rhetorical use, the ‘maw’, devouring capacity, of a…
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| 释义 | the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > inordinate or excessive desire > [noun] > rapacity > rapacious person (7) gorgec1450 Falconry. The crop of a hawk. to bear full gorge: to be full fed. Hence, in opprobrious rhetorical use, the ‘maw’, devouring capacity, of a… sanguisugec1540 A blood-sucker (figurative). horse-leech1546 figurative. A rapacious, insatiable person. harpy1589 transferred and figurative. A rapacious, plundering, or grasping person; one that preys upon others. vulture1605 figurative. A person of a vile and rapacious disposition. leech1785 figurative. One who ‘sticks to’ another for the purpose of getting gain out of him. sanguisorb1884 quasi-etymologically: A ‘blood-sucker’. |
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