| 单词 | fish-horn |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfish-horn fish-horn n. a tin horn used on fishing-boats or by sellers of fish. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > selling > [noun] > horn or bell used by sellers muffin bell1822 fish-horn1856 the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sound of horn > [noun] > horn or hooter post-horna1652 steam-trumpet1801 blast-horn1844 fish-horn1856 hooter1878 klaxon1910 beep-beep1929 1856 F. S. Cozzens Sparrowgrass Papers iii. 38 Mrs. Sparrowgrass asked me who that was ‘blowing a fish-horn’. 1860 J. G. Holland Miss Gilbert's Career xix. 351 The instrument leaping out into various angular flourishes, as if a fish~horn had got above its business and were ambitious of the reputation of a key-bugle. 1913 W. W. Thompson Sea Fisheries Cape Colony iv. 82 The tuneless reverberations of the archaic fish-horn. 1947 L. G. Green Tavern of Seas (1952) i. 7 The fish horn is music only in the ears of those who love Cape Town. < as lemmas |
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