Dictionary entry

Beast of burden

Pronunciation

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Myanmar Meaning

(n) ဝန်တင်တိရစ္ဆာန်။

Definition

beast /bi:st/ n ၁။ ( dated or fml ) ေျခေလးေခ်ာင္းသတၱဝါ။ ေတာေကာင္ႀကီး။ wild beasts ❍ The lion is sometimes called the king of beasts. ၂။ (က) ရက္စက္ ၾကမ္းၾကဳတ္ ေသာသူ။ လူ႕တိရစၧာန္။ Only a beast could abuse a child Alcohol brings out the beast in him (ie makes him act in a violent and cruel way). (ခ) ( infml derog ) (အေျပာင္ အျပက္သံုးသည္။ ) မုန္းစရာ။ Stop tickling me, you beast! ❍ I caught a real beast of a cold. ❏ beastly adj ၁။ လူမဆန္ေသာ။ ၂။ ( Brit infml ) စက္ဆုပ္စရာ။ ရြံစရာ။ What beastly weather! ❍ That's absolutely beastly of him. adv ( Brit infml ) အလြန္႔ အလြန္။ It's beastly cold outside! beastliness n [U] ❏ beast of burden n ဝန္တင္တိရစၧာန္။

Examples

  1. A wild beast
  2. The music business is an unpredictable beast.
  3. The US cinema audience is a very different beast.