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curse like a pagan en · VERB

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (qualifier:simile) Synonym of swear like a trooper.
    • The Febrers returned to their house covered with renown even in defeat; one bearing the golden testimonial of the Caesar’s friendship; the other, the knight commander, lying on a litter, cursing like a pagan because the blockading of Algiers had been discontinued. 1920, Frances Douglas, The Dead Command, translation of Los Muertos Mandan by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, page 114:
    • When his father saw him he fumed terribly, cursing like a pagan, and asking whether his son were a roysterer fit for the gallows as well as a fool fit for a cassock. 1902, Hilaire Belloc, The Path to Rome:
    • […]from the moment the guide announced he had lost his way, my factotum took leave at once of his courage and his senses and began to weep like a child and curse like a pagan. 1857, Robert Walter Stewart, The tent and the khan: A journey to Sinai and Palestine, page 482:

Forms

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cursed like a pagan Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
cursed like a pagan Tense=Past lexicographic
cursing like a pagan Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
curses like a pagan Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic

Synonyms

swear like a trooper