| 单词 |
corn-vorant |
| 释义 |
† corn-vorant Obs. Punning alteration of cormorant, corvorant (as if f. corn + -vorant devouring), in allusion to the extortions of corn-mongers. Cf. corn-monger, cornmudgin.
1609W. M. Man in Moone in Halliw. Character Bks. (1857) 103 He is an insatiable cormorant, or rather corne-vorant..a mercilesse money-monger..and unconscionable extortioner. 1631R. H. Arraignm. Whole Creature xiii. §1. 177 Eating like Cormorants (or Corn vorants). |

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