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单词 Bardolphian
释义

Bardolphian

English

Etymology

Bardolph + -ian

Adjective

Bardolphian (comparative more Bardolphian, superlative most Bardolphian)

  1. Of or relating to Bardolph, an alcoholic thief in four of Shakespeare's plays, especially in having the red nose of a habitual drunkard.
    • 1870, Frederic Swartwout Cozzens, Sayings, Wise and Otherwise (page 252)
      You intend to paint it red a true Bardolphian nose!
    • 1876, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Fanshawe, and other pieces (page 50)
      His cheeks were plump and sanguine; his eyes bright and cheerful; and the tip of his nose glowed with a Bardolphian fire, a flame, indeed, which Hugh was so far a vestal as to supply with its necessary fuel at all some seasons of the year.
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