| 词汇 | howling |
| 释义 | howling adjective 1 drunk UK, 2002. 2 very smelly UK, 1988. 3 superlative UK, 1865 be a howling successTo be extremely or triumphantly successful. For having such a limited budget, their play turned out to be a howling success. My business was a howling success in the 1980s and '90s, but the advent of the Internet rendered my services obsolete. howl like a bansheeTo scream, howl, or screech in a very loud, high-pitched, and unsettling manner. Some animal has been howling like a banshee in the alleyway all night long. Kids, stop howling like a banshees back there! I need to focus on driving and I can barely hear myself think! screaming fantodsold-fashioned Extreme disquiet of the body and mind; anxious or nervous unease. My poor mother was afflicted with the screaming fantods for the rest of her life following the accident. Just thinking about going out on a stage in front of hundreds of people to give my presentation is enough to give me the screaming fantods. howl with laughterTo laugh uproariously. His opening monologue must have gone really well—we could hear the audience howling with laughter. howl with painTo wail or yell because one is feeling pain. Sally twisted her ankle and fell to the ground, howling with pain. howl in painTo wail or yell because one is feeling pain. Sally twisted her ankle and fell to the ground, howling in pain. howl with (something)To emphatically respond to some stimulus in a particular manner (named after "with"). His opening monologue must have gone really well—we could hear the audience howling with laughter. Sally twisted her ankle and fell to the ground, howling with pain. howling drunkslang Extremely drunk. Do you remember last night at the bar at all? You were really howling drunk. howling fantodsold-fashioned Extreme disquiet of the body and mind; anxious or nervous unease. My poor mother was afflicted with the howling fantods for the rest of her life following the accident. Just thinking about going out on a stage in front of hundreds of people to give my presentation is enough to give me the howling fantods. howling successA tremendous triumph, as in Their first play was a howling success. This colloquial expression employs howling in the sense of "very pronounced" or "glaring," a usage dating from the mid-1800s. howling (drunk) mod. alcohol intoxicated; loudly drunk. Willy got howling drunk and ran in the streets with his coat off. howlingverbSee howling drunk screaming fantodsand (howling) fantods n. extreme anxiety; nervous hysteria. (Old. One might call this vintage literary mock colloquial, since it survives in the works of well-known writers and occasional literary use. The origin is unknown, but the Oxford English Dictionary lists Fantad with the same meaning, and cautiously suggests that is related to fantasy and similar words containing fan.) The afternoon’s excitement has left Lady Waddington with a case of the screaming fantods. The reviewer felt that any slang dictionary that excluded “fantods” was defective. howling fantodsverbSee screaming fantods |
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