单词 | Bœotian |
释义 | Bœotian, a. and n.|biːˈəʊʃ(ɪ)ən| [f. prec. + -an.] A. adj. a. Of Bœotia. b. Dull, stupid.
1598Marston Pigmal. ii. 142, I dull-sprighted fat Boetian Boore. 1809Byron Bards & Rev. 82 To be misled By Jeffrey's heart, or Lambe's Bœotian head. 1831Carlyle Sart. Res. iii. i, The earnestness and Bœotian simplicity..with which that ‘Incident’ is here brought forward. B. n. a. A native of Bœotia. b. A stupid clown, a ‘thick-head’.
1649G. Daniel Trinarch., Hen. V, lix, These Trencher-Sts.; full-paunch't Boetians, Contemne all Bodies bred in purer Ayre, As Atticke leanness. 1821Lockhart Valerius II. x. 296 An opportunity..which I should have been a Bœotian indeed had I neglected. 1839Thirlwall Greece VIII. 465. |

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