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单词 ownty-downty
释义 ownty-downty, a.|ˈəʊntɪˈdəʊntɪ|
Also ownty-donty, owny-towny.
[A rhyming jingle.]
A familiar or nursery extension of own a.
1815D. Humphreys Yankey in Eng. 19 My owny, towny, Lydy Lovett.1871L. M. Alcott Little Men v. 68 How nice it is to do it all my ownty donty self!1882O. W. Holmes Let. 18 Mar. in J. Brown Lett. (1912) 449 It is told, the story, without any affectation, but so lovingly that the blessed little creature becomes our own child, our ‘ownty-downty’, as New England nursery small talk has it.
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