| 释义 |
bald-face U.S.
[bald a. 2.]
1. The widgeon (also called bald-head, -pate).
1709J. Lawson New Voy. Carolina 151 The bald or white Faces are a good Fowl. Marg. Bald-Faces. 1768Washington Diaries (1925) I. 253 Went a ducking between breakfast and dinner and killd 2 Mallards and 5 bald faces.
2. A variety of whisky. slang.
1840Daily Pennant (St. Louis) 28 Apr. (Th.), He called lustily for a horn of bald-face and molasses. 1848Knickerbocker XXXII. 402 What is classically denominated ‘bald-face’, or old brown whiskey. 1872Schele de Vere Americanisms 581 Bald-face, one of the many slang terms under which bad whiskey passes in the West. |