“Bœotia”的英文意思

单词

Bœotia

释义

Bœotia|biːˈəʊʃ(ɪ)ə|
A district of ancient Greece proverbial for the stupidity of its inhabitants: hence fig.
1786Wolcott (P. Pindar) Ep. Boswell Wks. 1794 I. 313 A dim Bœotia reigns in every skull.1884Harper's Mag. Nov. 895/2 Essex appears to be looked on as the Bœotia of England.
Hence ˈBœotize v., to become or make Bœotian.
1789Parr Wks. (1828) VII. 410, I live quite in Bœotia, and Bœotize daily.1846Grote Greece (1854) I. 183 These inhabitants of Orchomenos, before it became bœotised.

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