| 单词 |
mauler |
| 释义 |
mauler|ˈmɔːlə(r)|
Also 7 maller.
[f. maul v. + -er1.]
1. One who mauls. (Sometimes used to render L. malleus = maul n.1 2 b.)
1618Naunton in Fortesc. Papers (Camden) 74 The maller and confounder of theyr battel. 1655[see hammer n. 1 b]. a1661Fuller Worthies, Camb. (1662) i. 178 Thomas Lord Cromwell (the Mauler of Monasteries). 1858Carlyle Fredk. Gt. iii. v. (1872) I. 165 The Polish King, Casimir IV. (late mauler of the Teutsch Ritters). 1884Athenæum 1 Mar. 278/2 Vice the great vampire and violence, the great mauler.
2. slang. A hand; a fist. Cf. mauley.
1820‘W. T. Moncrieff’ Mod. Collegians 18 The Old Gentleman wishes to know how to put his maulers in action. 1936‘F. Gerald’ Millionaire in Memories vii. 193 To a young fellow who fancied himself with his ‘maulers’ the proposition was attractive..plenty of fighting. 1960S. H. Courtier Gently dust Corpse xii. 170 Wait till I get my maulers on Lew Boston. 1973J. Rossiter Manipulators viii. 92 You keep your big maulers off this. |
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