| 单词 |
cowering |
| 释义 |
cowering, ppl. a.|ˈkaʊərɪŋ| [f. prec. + -ing2.] That cowers: see the verb.
c1430Lydg. Min. Poems (Percy Soc.) 35 Hir colde and cowherand syer. 1813Hogg Queen's Wake 73 Nowther the roe, nor the rein-deir dun, The hinde nor the couryng grew. 1860Trench Serm. Westm. Ab. ix. 96 A servile band of cowering slaves. Hence ˈcoweringly adv., in a cowering manner.
1821J. Baillie Metr. Leg., Wallace lxxiii, Which coweringly ye sought to shun. 1868G. Macdonald Rob. Falconer I. 70 ‘I'll never luik at it’..answered Shargar, coweringly. |
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