单词 | savagerous |
释义 | † savagerous, a. U.S. dial. Obs.|ˈsævɪdʒɛrəs, səˈvædʒərəs| Also sawagerous, servagerous, sevagerous. [f. savage a. + dangerous a.] Fierce, wild, violent, dangerous. Also as quasi-adv.
1832F. Trollope Dom. Manners Amer. I. xiii. 186 The visitor took it [sc. a dagger] up, and examining it with much emotion, exclaimed, ‘What! do you really jab this into yourself sevagarous?’ 1837R. M. Bird Nick of Woods I. iv. 71 The strongest men in Kentucky, and the most sevagarous at a tussle. 1845W. T. Porter Big Bear of Arkansas 121 They war mighty savagerous arter likher. 1850Wilmington (N. Carolina) Commercial 7 Mar. 1/6 Of all the untiring, unaccountable, and unspeakable ‘Savagerous’ rumpuses ever kicked up Cape Horn takes the banner. 1859‘Dow, Jr.’ New Patent Sermons 263 A very sawagerous creature called the Youknowcan. 1866C. H. Smith Bill Arp 54 It [sc. Habeas Corpus] is, perhaps, when suspended, the most savagerous beast that ever got after tories and traitors. 1927Amer. Speech II. 363/2 Servagerous (adj.), very active. ‘That is a servagerous coon dog.’ |

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