| 单词 | cracker-poetry |
| 释义 | > as lemmascracker-poetry b. (In full cracker bon-bon.) A bon-bon, or small parcel of sweets, etc., which is designed to break apart with a bang when its ends are pulled, releasing the contents. attributive, as cracker-motto, cracker-paper, cracker-poetry, cracker-rhyme. Cf. Christmas cracker n. (b) at Christmas n.1 and int. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > other toys > [noun] > cracker cracker1841 snappera1845 bon-bon1846 cosaque1858 1841 A. Smith Delightful People in Mirror XXXVII. 404 He exploded a cracker bonbon. 1844 A. R. Smith Adventures Mr. Ledbury II. iii. 44 They paid compliments, and said clever things, and pulled crackers. 1869 W. S. Gilbert Bab Ballads 56 Only find out who it is that writes those lovely cracker mottoes! 1882 B. M. Croker Proper Pride I. iv. 61 You remember the cracker we pulled together..on Monday, and I would not show you the motto? 1906 Westm. Gaz. 8 Sept. 2/2 A tragedy in rhymed verse not up to the standard of cracker poetry. 1907 Westm. Gaz. 25 Apr. 2/1 The gaily tinted scraps of cracker-paper that children love. 1934 D. Thomas Let. 2 May in Sel. Lett. (1966) 115 Cracker-rhymes that we..will imagine as the disregarded fruits of genius. 1942 ‘G. Orwell’ Crit. Ess. (1951) 128 The collection of cracker-mottoes at the end of Man and Superman. 1954 J. R. R. Tolkien Fellowship of Ring i. i. 45 The crumbs and cracker-paper, the forgotten bags and gloves and handkerchiefs. < as lemmas |
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