| 单词 | knowledge box |
| 释义 | > as lemmasknowledge box knowledge box n. slang (a) the head; the brain (now chiefly U.S.); (b) U.S. (frequently depreciative) a school; cf. knowledge factory n. (now historical). ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > [noun] nolleOE headOE topa1225 copc1264 scalpa1300 chiefc1330 crownc1330 jowla1400 poll?a1400 testea1400 ball in the hoodc1400 palleta1425 noddle?1507 costard?1515 nab?1536 neck1560 coxcomb1567 sconce1567 now1568 headpiece1579 mazer1581 mazardc1595 cockcomb1602 costrel1604 cranion1611 pasha1616 noddle pate1622 block1635 cranium1647 sallet1652 poundrel1664 nob1699 crany?1730 knowledge box1755 noodle1762 noggin1769 napper1785 garret1796 pimple1811 knowledge-casket1822 coco1828 cobbra1832 coconut1834 top-piece1838 nut1841 barnet1857 twopenny1859 chump1864 topknot1869 conk1870 masthead1884 filbert1886 bonce1889 crumpet1891 dome1891 roof1897 beanc1905 belfry1907 hat rack1907 melon1907 box1908 lemon1923 loaf1925 pound1933 sconec1945 nana1966 1755 J. Shebbeare Lydia IV. cvi. 72 The Player, being best skilled in Boxing, to talk in technical Terms, had darkened one of the Divine's Day-lights, given him a damn'd Drive in the Bread-basket, and almost crack'd his Knowledge-box. 1844 C. Northend Obstacles to Greater Success of Common Schools 6 These miserable specimens of the ‘Knowledge boxes’..which have so long been visible in our towns and villages, are rapidly disappearing. 1874 F. C. Burnand My Time v. 42 With all these odds and ends, my knowledge-box was fairly stored. 1923 G. B. Shaw Let. 16 Feb. in M. E. Ward G. K. Chesterton (1944) xxv. 417 They do not strike on the knowledge box of the modern intellectual. 1943 W. Stegner Big Rock Candy Mountain i. 44 For six months he was on the bum, sleeping in jungles and knowledge boxes. 1968 N. C. Heard Howard St. 81 You ain't right in the knowledge-box. 2004 Publishers Weekly Rev. (Nexis) 28 June 37 Before he has a chance to get his bearings, Anna accidentally conks him on the ‘knowledge box’ with one of her many inventions. 2005 B. Watson Bread & Roses iii. 56 He had dropped out of the ‘knowledge box’, or school. < as lemmas |
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