| 单词 | hen fruit |
| 释义 | > as lemmashen fruit hen fruit n. (also hen's fruit) slang (chiefly U.S., Australian, and New Zealand) (hen) eggs; cf. cackle-berry n. at cackle n. 4. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > eggs > [noun] > hen's egg egg805 hen eggeOE cockneyc1390 hen fruit1844 cackle-berry1916 1844 Vincennes (Indiana) Gaz. 4 May Eggs are called in the west by extremely modest people, ‘hen fruit’. Oh! horror! how nice! 1888 Freeport (Illinois) Daily Jrnl. 13 Dec. It looks as though somebody was trying to corner the egg market, as hen fruit is very scarce. 1942 Sunday Chron. 1 Mar. 1/1 To him [sc. a ward-room steward] egg and bacon is ‘hen's fruit and hog's body’. 2017 Bay Post (Batemans Bay, Austral.) (Nexis) 29 Nov. A number of youths..pelted him with eggs. Whether the hen-fruit was green or over-ripe makes very little difference, the action was a decidedly cruel one. < as lemmas |
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