“bug's、word”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

bug's-word

释义

† bug-word, bug's-word Obs.
[f. bug n.¹ + word. Cf. bugbear word.]
A word meant to frighten or terrify; a word that causes dread. Usually in pl. Swaggering or threatening language.
1562J. Heywood Prov. & Epigr. (1867) 54 All be bugs woords, that I speake to spare.a1600Hooker Wks. (1845) I. 277 Certaine wordes, as Nature, Reason, Will and such like which wheresoever you find named you suspect..as bugs wordes.1632Sanderson Serm. 163 Outdared with the bigge-lookes and bug-words of those that could doe him no harme.1668Dryden Sir M. Mar-All i. i, I..have nothing to hope for..but death. Death is a bug-word.a1734North Exam. i. ii. ⁋105 (1740) 87 A Rebellion; O no, that's a bug Word.

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