| 单词 | as empty as a mollag |
| 释义 | > as lemmasas empty as a mollag An inflated dog's skin used as a float for fishing nets. as empty as a mollag: completely empty. as full as a mollag: extremely drunk. ΚΠ 1883 Official Catal. Internat. Fisheries Exhib. (ed. 4) 132 One Balk or long line for cod-fishing,..with ‘mollag’ or buoy. 1894 H. Caine Manxman 151 Your head's as empty as a mollag. 1895 E. Rydings Manx Tales 114 He come home about half-an-hour ago as full as a mollag. 1934 W. W. Gill Manx Dial. ii.83 Parties of dressed-up men used to patrol the streets at Christmas making primitive music and thumping ‘mollags’ (net-bladders). 1974 P. Wright Lang. Brit. Industry i. 12 Words of Celtic origin..that do occur in England..are very rare. E.g. the Lancashire mullog (cf. Gaelic mollag) ‘inflated dogskin buoy’. 1988 Jrnl. Lancs. Dial. Soc. Sept. 15 The inflated dog-skin floats were mullicks at Newlyn and mollags at St. Ives, reminiscent of old Fleetwood mullogs (cf. Manx mollag). < as lemmas |
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