| 单词 | little mary |
| 释义 | > as lemmasLittle Mary Little Mary n. British colloquial (now somewhat dated) the stomach. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > stomach or belly > [noun] maweOE wombOE codc1275 cropc1325 gut1362 stomachc1374 bellyc1375 pauncha1393 flanka1398 heartc1400 kitchen?a1500 kytec1540 micklewame1566 craw1574 ventricle1574 pudding house1583 buck1607 wame1611 ventricule1677 ventriculus1710 victualling-office1751 breadbasket1753 haggis1757 haggis bagc1775 baggie1786 pechan1786 manyplies1787 middle piece1817 inner man1856 inner woman1857 tum-tum1864 tum1867 tummy1867 keg1887 stummick1888 kishke1902 shit-bag1902 Little Mary1903 puku1917 Maconochie1919 1903 Punch 14 Oct. 258/1 And what is the subject of the piece [sc. J. M. Barrie's Little Mary]? Who is Little Mary? It is nobody: it is simply a nursery name that the child-doctor invents as a kind of polite equivalent to what children ordinarily allude to as their ‘tum-tum’. 1903 Punch 14 Oct. 258/1 Good-natured British audiences have strong Little Maries. 1923 U. L. Silberrad Lett. Jean Armiter iv. 82 Then I get a cold in Little Mary, my vulnerable spot. 1933 W. H. Harrison Humour in East End 18 ‘I've got a little Mary too!’ Swift as lightning came the reply, with a shrewd glance at a corpulent waistcoat: ‘Not arf yer ain't, guv-nor.’ 1940 H. Garland Let. 26 Feb. (1998) 433 I very seldom have any trouble with my ‘Little Mary’ as the British call it. < as lemmas |
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