| 单词 | household word |
| 释义 | > as lemmashousehold word household word n. a word, phrase, or saying in familiar use; a well-known name, person, or thing.In quot. 1574: household contentions or quarrels (see word n. 9). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > saying, maxim, adage > self-evident truth, axiom > [noun] > trite saying, commonplace commonplace1560 household word1574 scholium1830 commonplaceism1831 banality1861 bromide1906 stock response1925 tag-phrase1933 the mind > language > linguistics > linguistic unit > word > [noun] > other specific types of word hard word1533 household word1574 magic word1581 grandam words1598 signal word1645 book worda1670 wordie1718 my whole1777 foundling1827–38 keyword1827 Mesopotamia1827 thought-word1844 word-symbol1852 nursery word1853 pivot word1865 rattler1865 object word1876 pillow word1877 nonce-word1884 non-word1893 fossil1901 blessed word1910 bogy-word1919 catch-all1922 pseudo-word1929 false friend1931 plus word1939 descriptor1946 meta-word1952 discourse marker1967 shrub2008 1574 E. Hellowes tr. A. de Guevara Familiar Epist. 496 Afterwards they come to some houshold wordes & grudgings. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) iv. iii. 52 Then shall our Names, Familiar in his mouth as household words..Be in their flowing Cups freshly remembred. View more context for this quotation 1788 Gentleman's Mag. Mar. 205/2 Their familiar and household words, their radical verbs, and even the indeclinable parts of speech. 1888 J. W. Burgon Lives Twelve Good Men I. iv. 375 A household word wherever the English language is spoken. 1922 People's Home Jrnl. July 19/3 People will laugh and cry with Helen Lynch. Her name will become a household word. 1993 Sun (Baltimore) 15 Aug. e1/2 Although the 58-year-old actor and his character, Mr. Humphries, may not be exactly household words to most people in this country, they are to fans of British comedy. 2008 St. Petersburg (Florida) Times 20 May 3/4 [Sex and the City] made the Rabbit, a two-pronged dildo, a household word in the United States. < as lemmas |
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