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单词 cotton-wool
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cotton-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.
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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.
extracted from cotton wooln.
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