英语词汇“clay-eater”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

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clay-eater

clay-eater n. U.S. (see quot. a1860).

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1841 W. G. Simms Scout (1882) 153 He was..a jaundiced..‘clay-eater’ from the Wassamasaw country.

a1860 Ida May in J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms Clay-eaters, a miserable set of people inhabiting some of the Southern States, who subsist chiefly on turpentine whiskey, and appease their craving for more substantial food by filling their stomachs with a kind of aluminous earth which abounds everywhere..They are looked down upon by the negroes with a contempt which they return by a hearty hatred.

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单词	clay-eater
释义	> as lemmas clay-eater clay-eater n. U.S. (see quot. a1860). ΚΠ 1841 W. G. Simms Scout (1882) 153 He was..a jaundiced..‘clay-eater’ from the Wassamasaw country. a1860 Ida May in J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms Clay-eaters, a miserable set of people inhabiting some of the Southern States, who subsist chiefly on turpentine whiskey, and appease their craving for more substantial food by filling their stomachs with a kind of aluminous earth which abounds everywhere..They are looked down upon by the negroes with a contempt which they return by a hearty hatred. extracted from clayn. < as lemmas
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