| 释义 |
sloan Sc. rare.|sləʊn|
[Of obscure origin: the form in northern English dialects is slon.]
A severe snub or reproof; a ‘taking-down’.
1824Scott St. Ronan's i, None so likely as Meg to give them what in her country is called a sloan. 1828― Hrt. Midl. Note xix, To have an opportunity of reviling the Judges to their faces, or giving them, in the phrase of his country, ‘a sloan’. |