| 单词 |
woolly-headed |
| 释义 |
ˈwoolly-ˈheaded, a.
(stress variable)
Having a woolly head: a. in specific names of plants; b. Woolly-haired; c. fig. Dull-witted.
a.1650[W. Howe] Phytol. Brit. 22 Carduus eriocephalus..Wolly-headed Thistle. 1796Withering Brit. Plants (ed. 3) III. 701 Carduus eriophorus..Woolly-headed Thistle. 1857Anne Pratt Flower. Pl. III. 237 Cnicus eriophorus..(Woolly-headed Plume-thistle). 1889J. H. Maiden Usef. Pl. Australia 72 Andropogon bombycinus... ‘Woolly-headed Grass.’
b.1708Brit. Apollo No. 5. 2/1 The Blacks in Guinea are Woolly-headed. 1813Prichard Phys. Hist. Man vi. §6. 307 Most of them resembled the woolly-headed Papuas. 1877A. B. Edwards Up Nile xvi. 435 Abyssinians and Nubians,..flat-nosed, and wooly-headed.
c.1883R. Broughton Belinda iv. iv, She has taken..the Borrowdale road, walks along it for some distance confused and woolly-headed. 1883Harper's Mag. Oct. 708/2 This, too, not by silly, woolly-headed people, but by practical, hard-headed men of business. |
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