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More about big-hearted
Big-hearted 鈥済enerous; kind鈥� certainly wears its heart on its sleeve, etymologically speaking. It鈥檚 a straightforward compound of big 鈥渕agnanimous; generous; kindly鈥� and hearted 鈥渉aving a specified kind of heart.鈥� While big-hearted is found in English in the 1700s in the sense of “courageous,” the word heart, as regarded as the center of a person鈥檚 emotion and disposition, reaches well back into Old English. Hearted is used in combination with other adjectives to describe various temperaments: cold-hearted, fainthearted, hardhearted, and lighthearted are some other common examples.
how is big-hearted used?
The varied gifts were ranged about the foot of the bed, the golf stockings bulging with sweets were hung at its head, and the big-hearted donors retired ….
For his part, the Badger left him in no doubt that a small effort now, and a big-hearted gesture, would make all the difference to the life of Toad, of the River Bank and of them all.
atiptoe
adverb, adjective
eagerly expectant, as anticipating a desired event or arrival: waiting atiptoe for the mail.
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If children wait atiptoe for Christmas morning, they are 鈥渆agerly expectant,鈥� their anticipation likened to the excitement associated with standing on tiptoe. And indeed, 鈥渙n tiptoe鈥� is what the adjective and adverb atiptoe literally means. The initial a– in atiptoe is a reduced form of the Old English preposition on, variously meaning 鈥渙n, in, into, toward.鈥� This particular a– (the form has many other senses or functions in English) appears in a great variety of words, such as acknowledge, ablaze, aloud, and away. So, afoot, as another example, began as the prepositional phrase on foot. Atiptoe is recorded English by the late 1500s.
how is atiptoe used?
Ethel was standing beside her all aglow and atiptoe with anticipation.
The audience was atiptoe when “Suor Angelica” began, but despondent at the curtain’s fall.
驳别尘眉迟濒颈肠丑
adjective
comfortable and pleasant; cozy.
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The adjective 驳别尘眉迟濒颈肠丑 鈥渃omfortable and pleasant; cozy鈥� is borrowed directly from German 驳别尘眉迟濒颈肠丑 鈥渉omey, casual, social.鈥� 骋别尘眉迟濒颈肠丑 is composed of 骋别尘眉迟 鈥渕ind, mentality鈥� and –lich, which is equivalent to English鈥檚 adverb-forming suffix –ly. The German noun 骋别尘眉迟鈥攚hich might be more properly translated as 鈥渢he total composition of the human psyche and spirit鈥濃�攊s formed from ge-, a collective noun-forming prefix, and Mut 鈥渃ourage,鈥� related to English mood. 骋别尘眉迟濒颈肠丑 entered English in the mid-1800s.
how is 驳别尘眉迟濒颈肠丑 used?
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