“slowback”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

slowback

释义

† ˈslowback Obs.
[f. slow a. + back n.¹]
1. A slothful or sluggish person; a sluggard.
1577tr. Bullinger's Decades (1592) 266 For God doeth not assist slouthfull persons and idle slow backes.1609Holland Amm. Marcell. xvii. ii. 93 Rayling at him as a slow⁓backe and coward.a1639W. Whately Prototypes i. xix. (1640) 234 Slow-backs, whose hand is no sooner from under the Governours eye, but that it is also off from the work.
2. transf. A drone-bee.
1601Holland Pliny I. 314 They [sc. bees] mark and note the slow-backs, they chastise them anon.
3. attrib. or as adj. Laggard; sluggish.
1619W. Sclater Exp. 1 Thess. (1630) 256 How much adoe haue we..to hale on our slow-back Nature to perfection.Ibid. 572 God be mercifull to this declining Age, this slow⁓backe, or rather backsliding generation.

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