| 单词 |
chap-fallen |
| 释义 |
chap-fallen, a.|ˈtʃæpˌfɔːlən|
Also 7 -faln(e.
[f. chap n.2 + fallen. A common variant is chop-fallen.]
1. With the chap or lower jaw hanging down, as an effect of extreme exhaustion or debility, of a wound received, or esp. of death.
1598Gerard Herbal i. i. 3 Beasts that be chap-fallen through long standing in pound. 1609Ev. Woman in Hum. i. i. in Bullen O. Pl. IV, Her tung..wagges within her chap-faln jawes. 1621Fletcher Wild-G. Chase iv. iii, Till they be chap-fall'n, and their tongues at peace, Nail'd in their coffins. a1809H. Cowley Bold Stroke 26 That plump face of yours will be chap-fallen I believe. 1842Tennyson Vision of Sin iv. 110 Trooping from their mouldy dens The chap-fallen circle spreads.
b. Said of the mouth-piece of a helmet.
a1700Dryden (J.) A chapfaln beaver loosely hanging by The cloven helm.
2. fig. Dejected, dispirited; crest-fallen.
1608Day Hum. out of Br. i. i. (1881) 6, I woulde poure Spirit of life..Into the iawes of chap-falne schollership. a1651Cleveland To Mrs. K.T. Poems 16 The Chap⁓falne Puritan. 1794Wolcott (P. Pindar) Rights of Kings Wks. III. 37 But, if his Nymph unfortunately frowns, Sad, chap fall'n, lo! he hangs himself, or drowns! 1881Besant & Rice Chapl. Fleet i. iv. (1883) 37 His clerk..stood with staring eyes and open mouth, chap-fallen and terrified.
Hence ˈchapˌfallenly adv.
1883R. Broughton Belinda I. i. vii. 112 ‘You would not like it, of course?’ he says, chapfallenly. |
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