单词 | cotton-wool |
释义 | > as lemmascotton-wool cotton-wool v. transitive (a) to stuff or close (the ears) with cotton-wool (nonce-word); (b) to wrap in cotton-wool; to coddle. ΚΠ 1857 J. L. Motley Let. 3 May in Corr. (1889) I. vi. 201 Cotton-wooling your ears absolutely to all hand-clapping and greasy mob applause. 1905 J. B. Vaizey How like King i He had to be fussed over, and cotton-wooled. < as lemmas |
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