单词 | bow-backed |
释义 | bow-backed, a.|ˈbəʊˌbækt| [prob. f. bow n.1 (but perh. in sense a. from bowe ppl. a., bowed, crooked) + back.] a. Having the back permanently bent, crook-backed. b. Having the back arched, as an angry cat. Hence bowˈbackedness.
1470Harding Chron. clvii. iii, This Edmond..Broke-backed and bowbacked bore, Was vnabled to haue the monarché. 1587Fleming Contn. Holinshed III. 1311/2 When they wax crooked & bow backt. 1847Tennyson Princ. vi. 339 The two great cats..Bow-back'd with fear. 1864N. Brit. Rev. Dec. 405 By a sudden effort..overcoming his bowbackedness. |

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