| 单词 | allday sucker |
| 释义 | > as lemmasall-day sucker all-day sucker n. originally and chiefly North American a large, long-lasting lollipop. ΚΠ 1896 Daily Times (Portsmouth, Ohio) 13 June The stick candy concerns known as ‘All Day Suckers’ have been causing a world of trouble... Several children have been poisoned by the stuff. 1896 Clack Bk. Oct. 68 ‘Gimini!’ said Roderick, and dropped his all day sucker on the old Bokara rug. 1918 E. Ferber Cheerful, by Request (1922) 60 The rolling eyed ecstasy of a schoolboy smacking his lips over an all-day sucker. 1994 B. Wilson Cordelia Clark 147 She licked all-day suckers while she worked on essays. all-day sucker 13. colloquial (originally local). A sweet, a ‘suck’. Also spec. (chiefly North American), a lollipop; all-day sucker: see all-day adj. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > sweets > [noun] > a sweet dredgec1350 confection1393 sugar-meat1586 trinket1587 confectionary1599 soot-meat1614 dulcid1694 sweetie1721 goody-goody1745 bon-bon1796 confiture1802 candy?1809 sweetmeat1812 sucker1823 dulce1834 lokum1845 goody1847 sweet1851 dragée1853 lolly1854 the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > sweets > [noun] > a sweet > lollipop lulibubc1710 sucker1823 lolly1935 lollipop1953 1823 E. Moor Suffolk Words 408 Suckers, a longish sort of a sweety. 1893 R. Kipling Many Inventions 168 We've played 'em for suckers so often. 1898 Tit-bits 30 Apr. 85/2 ‘Young bloods’ of the town who buy their ‘Suckers’ and weeds at the shop. 1907 Dial. Notes 3 250 Sucker, n., a kind of hard candy held by a small wooden stick and sucked. ‘Let's buy suckers.’ 1938 Times 13 Jan. 14/5 One of them said: ‘I'll buy some suckers.’ 1956 J. Symons Paper Chase xii. 91 A window in which gobstoppers, liquorice bootlaces and sherbet suckers nestle. 1962 J. Ludwig in R. Weaver Canad. Short Stories (1968) 2nd Ser. 242 ‘I got no money for suckers,’ the woman said nastily. 1971 Islander (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 19 Sept. 4/3 The small children eagerly hunted suckers that had been hidden in a large hay wagon. 1977 E. Jong Loveroot 45 Little sugar suckers with sour centers. < as lemmas |
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