单词 | hebe |
释义 | Heben.1 1. The goddess of youth and spring, represented as having been originally the cup-bearer of Olympus; hence applied figuratively to: a. A waitress, a barmaid. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > providing or serving drink > [noun] > serving liquor > tapster or barmaid tapsterc1000 drawer1379 wine-drawer1415 birlerc1440 shenkerc1440 trayer1473 tranter1500 skinker1575 lick-spigot1599 shot-shark1600 runner1601 skink1603 Hebe1606 Ganymede1608 squire of the gimlet1611 skinkard1615 bombard-man1616 bar-boy1631 faucet1631 tapstress1631 potman1652 barmaida1658 pot-boyc1662 tavern-drawer1709 tavern-boy1796 pot-girl1797 tap-boy1801 knight of the spigot1821 pewter-carrier1834 bartender1836 tap-waiter1836 barman1837 beer-boy1841 mixologist1856 bar-girl1857 mixer1858 gin slinger1871 swamper1907 tap-man1907 pot-woman1918 bar-staff1965 bar-person1976 the world > food and drink > food > serving food > [noun] > server of food > as servant > woman Phillis1589 Hebe1606 table maid1828 parlourmaid1836 parlour girl1858 waitress1875 the world > food and drink > food > serving food > [noun] > server of food > in inn or restaurant > woman Hebe1606 waitress1834 nippy1925 cocktail waitress1941 1606 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iv. 65 Heer, many an Hebé faire, heer more than one Quick-seruing Chiron neatly waits vpon The Beds and Boords. 1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering III. v. 93 Shortly after, the same Hebe brought up a plate of beef collops. b. A woman in her early youth. ΚΠ 1889 L. B. Walford Stiff-necked Generation I. ii. 35 ‘Good heavens! what a perfect Hebe!’ 2. Astronomy. Name of the sixth of the asteroids. ΚΠ 1858 J. F. W. Herschel Outl. Astron. (ed. 5) ix. 335 The discovery of Astræa and Hebe by Professor Hencke in 1845 and 1847. 3. Botany. [modern Latin (P. Commerson in A. L. Jussieu Genera Plantarum (1789) 105).] A member of a large genus of shrubs so called, mostly native to New Zealand, belonging to the family Scrophulariaceæ, and formerly included in the genus Veronica. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > shrubs > non-British shrubs > [noun] > Australasian banksia1787 waratah1793 honeysuckle1803 pinkwood1824 honeysuckle tree1825 rose1825 blue bush1828 dogwood1828 parrotbill1829 tulip-tree1830 whitebeard1832 swamp-oak1833 bauera1835 mungitec1837 bottlebrush1839 clianthus1841 glory-pea1848 boronia1852 koromiko1855 pituri1861 Sturt's pea1865 scrub vine1866 pea-bush1867 cotton-bush1876 Australian honeysuckle1881 peach myrtle1882 saloop bush1884 naupaka1888 dog rose1896 native tulip1898 snow bush1909 wedding-bush1923 Hebe1961 mountain pepper1965 the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Scrophulariaceae (figwort and allies) > [noun] > Veronica or speedwell > genus Veronica veronica1527 bird's eye1807 Hebe1961 1921 F. W. Pennell in Rhodora XXIII. 2 The austral distribution, with its suggestion of genetic remoteness, emphasizes Hebe's claim to recognition as a genus. 1927 Cockayne & Allan in Trans. & Proc. N.Z. Inst. 57 13 A species is usually transferred to Hebe only when..we are pretty well convinced it is valid.] 1961 Amateur Gardening 21 Oct. 5/1 The hebes, as the shrubby veronicas are now called. 1972 Country Life 23 Mar. 690/1 Our hebes have come through remarkably well: even the tenderest kinds like Simon Deleaux and Andersonii Variegata. Compounds C1. attributive and in other combinations, as Hebe bloom; Hebe-like adj. ΚΠ 1838 E. Bulwer-Lytton Alice II. vi. vi. 291 A certain melancholy in her countenance..I am sure not natural to its Hebe-like expression. 1842 Ld. Tennyson Gardener's Daughter in Poems (new ed.) II. 25 Her violet eyes, and all her Hebe-bloom. C2. Hebe's cup n. Heidelberg Punch ( Cassell's Dict. Cookery). Categories » Hebe vase n. a small vase like a cotyliscos of the kind which Hebe is represented as bearing (Brewer Dict. Phr. & Fable). This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online December 2019). Heben.2 A derogatory term for a Jew. ΚΠ 1932 J. T. Farrell Young Lonigan iv. 148 He shoulduh been a nigger or a hebe instead of Irish. 1946 M. Mezzrow & B. Wolfe Really Blues 374/2 Heeb, Jewish person. 1950 T. Sugrue in M. Hay Foot of Pride p. xx He might go through the whole of his life without expressing more than a casual distaste for ‘the Hebes’. 1953 E. F. Russell Somewhere a Voice (1965) 11 Lastly there was Sammy Finestone... A typical Hebe. 1972 National Observer (U.S.) 27 May 17/4 They will be followed close upon their heels by miserly Hebes, and cheating kikes. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2022). > see alsoalso refers to : hebe-comb. form < n.11606n.21932 see also |
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