| 单词 | irish blackguard |
| 释义 | > as lemmasIrish Blackguard Irish Blackguard n. now chiefly historical a dark snuff made from charred tobacco, having the reputation of being particularly pungent and likely to cause sneezing; cf. blackguard n. 7.Irish blackguard is reputed to have been first produced in the late 18th cent. by a Dublin tobacconist and snuff-maker, Lundy Foot. It is now most commonly known as Irish High Toast.In quot. 1837 in compound. ΚΠ 1795 W. Marshall Rev. Ess. i. ix, in Rev. Landscape 153 Snuffing high-dried Irish blackguard. 1837 J. Richardson Brit. Legion (ed. 2) i. 34 His dress was a coarse Irish-blackguard-snuff colored frock coat. 1854 Harper's Mag. May 824/1 [It] rivals that sort of snuff called Irish blackguard in its capacity for making you sneeze. 1906 S. R. Crockett Fishers of Men xxv. 337 And if you could reconcile it wi' your conscience to bring me in a twist o' tobacco, Kinahan's Irish Blackguard for choice, I wad caa the maitter square! 1981 P. Haines Kissing Gate xxvii. 204 Then there was Uncle Alexander's snuff in the big yellow box he kept in his waistcoat—it made me sneeze so. Yellow Irish Blackguard I think they called it. < as lemmas |
| 随便看 |
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。