| 释义 |
ˈtuck-shop slang.
[f. tuck n.1 (sense 6 b).]
A pastry-cook's shop for the sale of pastry, sweets, fruit, and the like, chiefly to schoolchildren.
1857Hughes Tom Brown i. vi, Come along down to Sally Harrowell's; that's our School-house tuck-shop—she bakes such stunning murphies. 1861Thackeray Round. Papers xvi. 378 We share our toffy; go halves at the tuck-shop; do each other's exercises. 1885Mozley Remin. I. 410 The five years I was at Charterhouse [1820–5] I never once went near the tuck-shop. |