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单词 hebe
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Heben.1

/ˈhiːbiː/
Etymology: < Greek ἥβη youthful prime, puberty; name of the daughter of Zeus and Hera.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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

Brit. /hiːb/, U.S. /hib/
Forms: Also Heeb, hebe.
Etymology: abbreviation of Hebrew n. 1.
A derogatory term for a Jew.
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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).

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