| 单词 | lottery puff |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslottery puff lottery puff n. now historical an exaggerated or misleading advertisement for a lottery; cf. puff n. 6b. ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > publishing or spreading abroad > advertising > advertising specific thing > [noun] > lottery lottery lanterna1777 lottery puff1795 lottery squib1806 1795 Crit. Rev. Oct. 224 This collection consists of detached scraps and sentences... We should have been surprised to find a lottery puff among them, if we had not recollected that this perhaps is the main object. 1822 W. Hazlitt Table-talk xiv. 309 Of all puffs, lottery-puffs are the most ingenious and most innocent... All prizes and No blanks—a self-evident imposition! 1867 N. Amer. Rev. Apr. 413 His poetical productions..should be forgotten, with the lottery puffs and the epigrams whereby he undertook to eke out his income. 2012 G. Hicks First Adman iv. 61 Thomas Hood, then tentatively starting out on a career as a literary journalist which he supplemented by hack work, including lottery puffs. < as lemmas |
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