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

C2. With participles, agent nouns, and verbal nouns, forming compounds in which dinner expresses the object of the underlying verb, as in dinner-eating, dinner-giving (adjectives and nouns), dinner-eater, dinner-giver (nouns).Much less common after early 20th cent.

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1777 Morning Chron. 24 Sept. A Cockney Dinner-Eater.

1829 W. Hazlitt in Compl. Wks. (1934) XX. 236 Dinner-hunters..never being in time.

1851 A. Helps Compan. Solitude iii. 29 Foolish gad-about, dinner-eating, dancing people.

1856 N.-Y. Daily Times 3 May 4/4 Mr. Thackeray..had to go through a terrible ordeal of dinner-eating, party-going, and personal attentions.

1881 Cent. Mag. Dec. 175/2 He regarded formal dinners as a bore, and avoided them as much as a famous man well could whose company was much sought by the dinner-giving people in Washington.

1893 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Jrnl. 19 May 5/2 The change in dinner giving most marked is that of greater simplicity in serving wines.

1922 E. Wharton Glimpses of Moon (1992) i. 19 We're both rather unusually popular..and it's such a blessing for dinner-givers to be able to count on a couple of whom neither one is a blank.

2014 Irish Independent (Nexis) 28 Apr. (National ed.) (Health & Living section) 22 I'm not really a dinner lover. I hate eating big meals.

单词	dinner-eating
释义	> as lemmas dinner-eating C2. With participles, agent nouns, and verbal nouns, forming compounds in which dinner expresses the object of the underlying verb, as in dinner-eating, dinner-giving (adjectives and nouns), dinner-eater, dinner-giver (nouns).Much less common after early 20th cent. ΚΠ 1777 Morning Chron. 24 Sept. A Cockney Dinner-Eater. 1829 W. Hazlitt in Compl. Wks. (1934) XX. 236 Dinner-hunters..never being in time. 1851 A. Helps Compan. Solitude iii. 29 Foolish gad-about, dinner-eating, dancing people. 1856 N.-Y. Daily Times 3 May 4/4 Mr. Thackeray..had to go through a terrible ordeal of dinner-eating, party-going, and personal attentions. 1881 Cent. Mag. Dec. 175/2 He regarded formal dinners as a bore, and avoided them as much as a famous man well could whose company was much sought by the dinner-giving people in Washington. 1893 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Jrnl. 19 May 5/2 The change in dinner giving most marked is that of greater simplicity in serving wines. 1922 E. Wharton Glimpses of Moon (1992) i. 19 We're both rather unusually popular..and it's such a blessing for dinner-givers to be able to count on a couple of whom neither one is a blank. 2014 Irish Independent (Nexis) 28 Apr. (National ed.) (Health & Living section) 22 I'm not really a dinner lover. I hate eating big meals. extracted from dinnern. < as lemmas
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