| 单词 |
peccadillo |
| 释义 |
peccadillo|pɛkəˈdɪləʊ|
Also 6 peccadilia, 7 -dil(l)io, -diglio, 8 -dilla; 7 peccha-, peca-, piccadillo; picadilio, pickadilla, 8 pecadiglio.
[a. Sp. pecadillo (-ðiljo), dim. of pecado sin, or It. peccadiglio (Florio, 1611).]
A small or venial fault or sin; a trifling offence.
1591Harington Apol. Poet. Orl. Fur. ⁋iv, I omit as his peccadilia, how he nicknameth priests. 1600O. E. Repl. Libel i. viii. 205 The Spaniard is saide to account it but a Peccadillo or little fault. 1607Sir J. H. in Harington's Nugæ Ant. (ed. Park 1804) II. 7 Some peccadilios of yours. 1637Bastwick Litany i. 19 Accounted..but peccadiglios. 1647Sir R. Stapylton Juvenal vi. 85 Lust appeares a peccadillio. Ibid. xiii. 241 Yet these are peccadilio's. 1652Brooks Precious Remedies (1653) 29 When this peccadillo..and a hot fiery furnace stood in competition. 1670Sir J. Bramston Autobiog. 143 This is but a picadilio. 1697Vanbrugh Relapse v. iii, Mr. Bull said it was a Peckadilla. 1708Nelson Let. Hanger in Secretan Life (1860) 192 Never reckon an excess in drinking a small fault, a pecadiglio. 1748Richardson Clarissa (1811) III. 206 She'll know enough of me, not to wonder at such a peccadilla. a1845Hood Ode R. Wilson xiv, Schemes..That frown upon St. Giles's sins, but blink The peccadilloes of all Piccadilly.
attrib.1600tr. Amyraldus' Treat. conc. Relig. iii. vi. 421 Those which they lookt upon as piccadillo sins. 1797M. Robinson Walsingham II. 221 The..amours of him whose peccadillo follies are the subject of universal ridicule. |
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