单词 | snout-fair |
释义 | † snout-fair, a. Obs. [f. snout n.1 Cf. MSw. snutofagher, Sw. snutfager.] Having a fair countenance; fair-faced, comely, handsome. Freq. in 16th and early 17th cent., usually with some disparaging suggestion.
1530Tindale Pract. Prelates F ij, If he come in to an house, & the wiff be snoutefayre he will rote him self there. 1598Bp. Hall Sat. iv. i. 111 Who list excuse? when chaister dames can hyre Some snout-faire stripling to their apple-squire. 1616R. C. Times' Whistle (1871) 34, I knowe a snowt-faire, selfe-conceited asse. 1649Quarles Virgin Widow i, True, She's snout faire; yet by her favour I Would scarce turn tables with her, though I say't. |

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