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pug·na·cious
puhg neI shs
pugnaciously (adv.), pugnaciousness (n.), pugnacity (n.)
词根:pugnacity
n.pugnacity 好斗,好战
Adjective
1. tough and callous by virtue of experience
2. ready and able to resort to force or violence;
"pugnacious spirits...lamented that there was so little prospect of an exhilarating disturbance"- Herman Melville
"they were rough and determined fighting men"
"易于争斗,好争吵的",1640年代,是从 pugnacity 反推而来,或者来自拉丁语 pugnacis, pugnax 的属格,意为"好战的,喜欢战斗的",源自 pugnare "战斗",尤其是用拳头"对抗",来自 pugnus "拳头"(来自 PIE *pung-, 根源为 *peuk- "刺"的鼻化形式)。相关词汇: Pugnaciously; pugnaciousness。
Latin pugnac-, pugnax, from pugnare to fight — more at pungent
The first known use of pugnacious was in 1642
pulletnoun
a young henespecially: a hen of the domestic chicken that is less than a year old
pull1 of 2verb
to separate forcibly from a natural or firm attachment pull up carrots
pull a tooth
to use force on so as to cause or tend to cause motion toward the force pull at a rope
pull a wagon
to stretch repeatedly
pull taffy
to strain by stretching
pull a tendon
move entry 1 sense 1
the car pulled out of the driveway
to draw apart : tear
remove entry 1 sense 2
pulled the pitcher in the third inning
to bring into the open
pulled a knife
to carry out with skill or daring : commit
pull a robbery
attract sense 2
pull customers
pull2 of 2noun
the act or an instance of pulling
the effort put forth in pulling
a long pull uphill
special influence
got his job through pull
a device for pulling
a drawer pull
a force that attracts or influences
the pull of gravity
an injury resulting from abnormal straining or stretching
a muscle pull
pukeverb
vomit entry 2
pukeverb
vomit entry 2
puissancenoun
strength sense 1, power
pugnoun
any of a breed of small sturdy compact dogs having a short coat, tightly curled tail, and broad wrinkled face
pugnaciousadjective
showing a readiness to fight
pugnaciousadjective
showing a readiness to fight
1 An enormously defensive and pugnacious title for this review.
2 He is consistently inventive, pugnacious with syllables and prone to break into a husky, not-quite-steady singsong flow.
3 “The O’Reilly Factor,” which mixes discussion segments with the host’s famously pugnacious commentary, was performing better than it has in its 20-year history.
4 It's an homage to 1950s roller derby and the pugnacious athletes who competed, fought, loved and lost.
5 As a child he was pugnacious and fought with everyone.
作为一个孩子,他好斗,并与大家战斗.
6 Besides, it’s clear that Mrs. Trump understands this and dressed this time around, at least to a certain extent, to make a point: to offer a different image to that of her pugnacious husband.
7 He was a short man with heavy shoulders, a slight potbelly, puffy blue eyes, and a pugnacious expression.
8 “It’s quite a good rule of thumb to steer clear of the businesses that are pugnacious.”
9 Lincoln was a clever, gangly, pugnacious, provincial lawyer.
10 Both Mr. Bradford and Mr. Ferris play with pugnacious alertness, doing some of their best work in an improvised tandem.
11 A pugnacious conservative, Mr Mappus is the CDU's loudest advocate of nuclear power.
作为保守党中的一个鹰派代表,马普斯先生是基民盟内最为推崇核能之人。
12 Kelly said like the boxers he loved writing about, Gallo had a pugnacious spirit.
13 A two-fisted piano boogie with a pugnacious slide guitar, “Wasted Words” is a surly lover’s quarrel escalated to theological ground.
14 Mr. Evans is a pugnacious, intuitive jazz pianist who has long divided his time between New York and his native Philadelphia.
15 Ms. Lambert championed for country’s scrappier side, preserving traditionalist aesthetics while overlaying them with pugnacious feminist storytelling.
16 It comes from the Latin word pugnare meaning ‘to fight,’ which is also the root of pugnacious and pugilism.”
17 That famously pugnacious chin is a little receded, but those familiar close-set eyes, which he passed on to his eldest son, Michael, are bright.
18 He had help in this effort from several people, including publisher Louis Austin, who, though aging and in ill health, was as pugnacious as ever.
19 His glance was at once calculating and pugnacious.
20 “The play was, and remains, as brilliant and pugnacious a punch against liberal inertia as any thrown in real life,” the critic Jesse Green wrote in The New York Times.
2 好吵架的
3 好斗
militant combatant scrappy feisty belligerent belligerence pugnacity bellicosity aggressive combative bellicose truculent truculence factious game fierce fiery bullish chippy agonistic fight trigger-happy aggression militancy fighting gamy tush bristly stroppy fire-eating scrappiness
4 好口角的
6 好争吵的
7 好寻衅的
9 好斗的
militant combatant scrappy feisty belligerent combative bellicose truculent mean aggressive fierce agonistic ass-kicking factious game fiery bullish chippy trigger-happy pugilistic warlike slash-and-burn kwaai fighting gamy tush bristly stroppy fire-eating
10 爱争吵的